[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

sperm whale \sperm" whale`\ zool.
   a very large toothed whale physeter macrocephalus, having
   a head of enormous size. the upper jaw is destitute of teeth.
   in the upper part of the head, above the skull, there is a
   large cavity, or case, filled with oil and spermaceti. this
   whale sometimes grows to the length of more than eighty feet.
   it is found in the warmer parts of all the oceans. called
   also cachalot, and spermaceti whale.
   1913 webster

   pygmy sperm whale zool., a small whale kogia
      breviceps, seldom twenty feet long, native of tropical
      seas, but occasionally found on the american coast. called
      also snub-nosed cachalot.

   sperm-whale porpoise zool., a toothed cetacean
      hyperoodon bidens, found on both sides of the atlantic
      and valued for its oil. the adult becomes about
      twenty-five feet long, and its head is very large and
      thick. called also bottle-nosed whale.
      1913 webster
see also:
physeter macrocephalus cachalot spermaceti whale pygmy sperm whale kogia breviceps snub-nosed cachalot 
sperm-whale porpoise hyperoodon bidens bottle-nosed whale 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

bottlehead \bot"tlehead`\, n. zool.
   a cetacean allied to the grampus; -- called also
   bottle-nosed whale.
   1913 webster

   note: there are several species so named, as the pilot
         whales, of the genus globicephalus, and one or more
         species of hypero"odon hypero"odon bidens,
         etc., found on the european coast. see blackfish, 1.
         1913 webster
see also:
bottle-nosed whale globicephalus hypero"odon hypero"odon bidens blackfish 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

bottle-nosed whale
     n : northern atlantic beaked whale with a bulbous forehead syn:
          bottlenose whale, bottlenose, hyperoodon ampullatus
see also:
bottlenose whale bottlenose hyperoodon ampullatus 

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