northern bottlenose whale

noun

variants or less commonly North Atlantic bottlenose whale

: a large, greenish-brown to gray beaked whale (Hyperoodon ampullatus) of deep, colder waters of the northern Atlantic Ocean

Word History

First Known Use

1977, in the meaning defined above

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