Usually means: Large whale with massive head.
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  1. cachalot: Merriam-Webster
  2. cachalot: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cachalot: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cachalot: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cachalot: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cachalot, cachalot: Wordnik
  7. cachalot: Wiktionary
  8. cachalot: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. cachalot: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. Cachalot, cachalot: Dictionary.com
  11. Cachalot (disambiguation), Cachalot (novel), Cachalot: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Cachalot: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. cachalot: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. cachalot: Rhymezone
  15. Cachalot: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. cachalot: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. cachalot: FreeDictionary.org
  18. cachalot: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. cachalot: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. cachalot: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (cachalot)

▸ noun:  The sperm whale.

Similar:
black whale, sperm whale, physeter catodon, cacholot, spermaceti whale, bottlenose, whalefish, dwarf sperm whale, sailfish, toothless whale, more...

Opposite:
dwarf sperm whale, Kogisima

Types:
sperm whale, killer whale, belugwhale, narwhal, humpback whale, minke whale, fin whale, blue whale, more...

Phrases:
snub-nosed cachalot, snub nosed cachalot, more...

Adjectives:
headed, male, great, old, common, macrocephalous, finned, gigantic, singularly, large, cute

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Similar:
black whale, sperm whale, physeter catodon, cacholot, spermaceti whale, bottlenose, whalefish, dwarf sperm whale, sailfish, toothless whale, more...

Opposite:
dwarf sperm whale, Kogisima

Types:
sperm whale, killer whale, belugwhale, narwhal, humpback whale, minke whale, fin whale, blue whale, more...

Phrases:
snub-nosed cachalot, snub nosed cachalot, more...

Adjectives:
headed, male, great, old, common, macrocephalous, finned, gigantic, singularly, large, cute



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