toothed whale

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   any of several whales having simple conical teeth and feeding on fish etc.

   Broaderwhale

   Narrowersperm whalepygmy sperm whaledwarf sperm whalebeaked whaledolphin

   Part ofOdontoceti

Questions about toothed whale

What does toothed whale mean?

toothed whale means "any of several whales having simple conical teeth and feeding on fish etc.".

Is toothed whale a common word?

toothed whale 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.