bottle-nosed whale

or bottlenose whale, bottlenosed whale

noun

1. any of various beaked whales of the family Hyperoodontidae, characterized by a bulbous forehead, especially Hyperoodon ampullatus of the North Atlantic.

Example Sentences

The PLA said no-one had yet tried to take a small boat on to the river, however that was happened in 2006 when a bottle-nosed whale became stranded in the Thames.

From BBC

In 2006, a northern bottle-nosed whale died after stranding itself in the Thames.

From Reuters

There is a kind of bottle-nosed whale the Indians never harpoon; they call him "Hik-na-critchka,"—more bone than blubber.

From Project Gutenberg

These muscles existing in the true bottle-nosed whale had a special interest, as the teeth in that whale were rudimentary and functionless.

From Project Gutenberg

I assured him there were no shoals in the vicinity of the yacht; and I took up the field-glasses, and saw quite plainly that it was a bottle-nosed whale.

From Project Gutenberg