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Narwhal

noun
(Written also narwhale and narwal)
1.
Small Arctic whale the male having a long spiral ivory tusk.  Synonyms: Monodon monoceros, narwal, narwhale.






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"Narwhal" Quotes from Famous Books



... they had been running long and hard. Still as quick as animals the little men gathered about him, their white-and-black eyes staring at him out of round, thick, dumb-looking faces. He noted that they were half a hundred strong, and that all were armed, many with their little javelin-like narwhal harpoons, some with spears, and others with rifles. From the circle of strangely dressed and hideously visaged beings that had gathered about him one advanced and began talking to him in a language that was like the rapid ...
— Isobel • James Oliver Curwood

... aspect of the flora, the accompanying mammalia are certainly most extraordinary. There are no less than three elephants, a rhinoceros and hippopotamus, a large extinct beaver, and several large estuarine and marine mammalia, such as the walrus, the narwhal, ...
— The Antiquity of Man • Charles Lyell



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