hyperoodon ampullatus

1. 1.

   northern Atlantic beaked whale with a bulbous forehead

   Synonymsbottle-nosed whalebottlenose whalebottlenose

   Broaderbeaked whale

   Part ofHyperoodon

Questions about hyperoodon ampullatus

What does hyperoodon ampullatus mean?

hyperoodon ampullatus means "northern Atlantic beaked whale with a bulbous forehead".

What is another word for hyperoodon ampullatus?

Close synonyms include bottle-nosed whale, bottlenose whale, bottlenose. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hyperoodon ampullatus a common word?

hyperoodon ampullatus is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.