narwhal
IPA: nˈɑrwʌɫ
noun
- Monodon monoceros, an Arctic cetacean that grows to about 20 feet (6 meters) long, the male having a single horn-like tusk, a twisted, pointed canine tooth that projects forward.
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Examples of "narwhal" in Sentences
- The word narwhal came from Norweigan and meant corpse whale.
- ③ Monodon monoceros: The narwhal is a medium-sized toothed whale that lives year-round in the Arctic.
- I got to try narwhal skin known as "muktuk", which tasted like cod but had the consistency of rubber tire.
- The narwhal is a small species of whale, being about twenty feet long, and spotted something like an iron-gray horse.
- At Upper Navik they do the same with the narwhal, which is thought more heat-making than the seal; while the bear, to use their own expression, is 'stronger travel than all.'
- Squid, along with octopus and bobtail squid (Rossia spp.), play an important role as prey in Arctic waters for species such as narwhal, beluga, seals, cod and Greenland halibut.
- Horns from several different animals, including the narwhal, have been shown around the courts of Europe as proof of the existence of the animal that no one living ever seems have seen with their own eyes.
- Sheattie confirmed that the moment when a narwhal is preparing to dive—when it lunges out of the water one final time after several shorter arches—is not only the ideal moment to shoot a picture, but also for hunters to aim for its brain.
- Sea, have huge teeth in their lower jaws, and in the upper only holes into which those teeth fit; others like the bottle-nose, only two teeth or so in the lower jaw; and others, like the narwhal, two straight tusks in the upper jaw, only one of which grows, and is what you call a narwhal's horn.
- So for instance, I picked the “N” page on which Featherbottom visits the North Pole instead of the one where he goes to Naples or New Orleans because the North Pole is where Santa lives, and also, the illustration on the North Pole page showed an awesome narwhal with a giant cone on its head that I knew Austin would think was pretty boss.
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