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Blowhole
(n.) A cavern in a cliff, at the water level, opening to the air at its farther extremity, so that the waters rush in with each surge and rise in a lofty jet from the extremity.
Blowhole
(n.) A nostril or spiracle in the top of the head of a whale or other cetacean.
Blowhole
(n.) A hole in the ice to which whales, seals, etc., come to breathe.
Blowhole
(n.) An air hole in a casting.
Dolphin
(n.) A cetacean of the genus Delphinus and allied genera (esp. D. delphis)
Dolphin
(n.) The Coryphaena hippuris, a fish of about five feet in length, celebrated for its surprising changes of color when dying. It is the fish commonly known as the dolphin. See Coryphaenoid.
Dolphin
(n.) A mass of iron or lead hung from the yardarm, in readiness to be dropped on the deck of an enemy's vessel.
Dolphin
(n.) A kind of wreath or strap of plaited cordage.
Dolphin
(n.) A spar or buoy held by an anchor and furnished with a ring to which ships may fasten their cables.
Dolphin
(n.) A mooring post on a wharf or beach.
Dolphin
(n.) A permanent fender around a heavy boat just below the gunwale.
Dolphin
(n.) In old ordnance, one of the handles above the trunnions by which the gun was lifted.
Dolphin
(n.) A small constellation between Aquila and Pegasus. See Delphinus, n., 2.
Right whale
() The bowhead, Arctic, or Greenland whale (Balaena mysticetus), from whose mouth the best whalebone is obtained.
Right whale
() Any other whale that produces valuable whalebone, as the Atlantic, or Biscay, right whale (Balaena cisarctica), and the Pacific right whale (B. Sieboldii)
Sperm whale
() 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.
Whale
(n.) Any aquatic mammal of the order Cetacea, especially any one of the large species, some of which become nearly one hundred feet long. Whales are hunted chiefly for their oil and baleen, or whalebone.

blowhole (of a whale or a dolphin) Bedeutung

dolphin kick a swimming kick, an up and down kick of the feet together
whale shark
Rhincodon typus
large spotted shark of warm surface waters worldwide, resembles a whale and feeds chiefly on plankton
whale louse amphipod crustacean parasitic on cetaceans
whale any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body and breathing through a blowhole on the head
baleen whale
whalebone whale
whale with plates of whalebone along the upper jaw for filtering plankton from the water
right whale large Arctic whalebone whale, allegedly the `right' whale to hunt because of its valuable whalebone and oil
bowhead
bowhead whale
Greenland whale
Balaena mysticetus
large-mouthed Arctic whale
blue whale
sulfur bottom
Balaenoptera musculus
largest mammal ever known, bluish-grey migratory whalebone whale mostly of southern hemisphere
finback
finback whale
fin whale
common rorqual
Balaenoptera physalus
large flat-headed whalebone whale having deep furrows along the throat, of Atlantic and Pacific
sei whale
Balaenoptera borealis
similar to but smaller than the finback whale
lesser rorqual
piked whale
minke whale
Balaenoptera acutorostrata
small finback of coastal waters of Atlantic and Pacific
humpback
humpback whale
Megaptera novaeangliae
large whalebone whale with long flippers noted for arching or humping its back as it dives
grey whale
gray whale
devilfish Eschrichtius gibbosus
Eschrichtius robustus
medium-sized greyish-black whale of the northern Pacific
toothed whale any of several whales having simple conical teeth and feeding on fish etc.
sperm whale
cachalot
black whale Physeter catodon
large whale with a large cavity in the head containing spermaceti and oil, also a source of ambergris
pygmy sperm whale
Kogia breviceps
small sperm whale of warm waters of both coasts of North America
dwarf sperm whale
Kogia simus
very small (to feet) sperm whale of central coasts of Atlantic and Pacific
beaked whale any of several whales inhabiting all oceans and having beaklike jaws with vestigial teeth in the upper jaw
bottle-nosed whale
bottlenose whale
bottlenose Hyperoodon ampullatus
northern Atlantic beaked whale with a bulbous forehead
dolphin any of various small toothed whales with a beaklike snout, larger than porpoises
common dolphin
Delphinus delphis
black-and-white dolphin that leaps high out of the water,
bottlenose dolphin
bottle-nosed dolphin
bottlenose
any of several dolphins with rounded forehead and well-developed beak, chiefly of northern Atlantic and Mediterranean
Atlantic bottlenose dolphin
Tursiops truncatus
the most common dolphin of northern Atlantic and Mediterranean, often kept captive and trained to perform
Pacific bottlenose dolphin
Tursiops gilli
a bottlenose dolphin found in the Pacific Ocean
killer whale
killer
orca
grampus sea wolf
Orcinus orca
predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin, common in cold seas
pilot whale
black whale common blackfish
blackfish Globicephala melaena
small darkolored whale of the Atlantic coast of the United States, the largest male acts as pilot or leader for the school
river dolphin any of several long-snouted usually freshwater dolphins of South America and southern Asia
white whale
beluga Delphinapterus leucas
small northern whale that is white when adult
whale sucker
whalesucker
Remilegia australis
large blue Pacific remora that attaches to whales and dolphins
dolphinfish
dolphin mahimahi
large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (especially around Hawaii)
dolphin striker
martingale
spar under the bowsprit of a sailboat
vent
venthole
vent-hole
blowhole
a hole for the escape of gas or air
blowhole the spiracle of a cetacean located far back on the skull
giant hulk
heavyweight whale
a very large person, impressive in size or qualities
dolphin oil an unsaturated fatty oil obtained from dolphins and used as a fine lubricant
whale oil
train oil
a white to brown oil obtained from whale blubber, formerly used as an illuminant
whale hunt for whales
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