Noun:

Narwhal,

narwhal's Usage Examples:

a close analogy with the Mexican calendar sign Cipactli, a kind of marine monster resembling a narwhal s Aquarius is a still more exclusively meteorological sign than Leo.

His speech about saving the narwhal tugged at my heart-strings and was a perfect example of pathos.

The narwhal is an Arctic whale, frequenting the icy circumpolar seas, and rarely seen south of 65° N.

The narwhal and the beluga have a very similar distribution, though the latter occasionally ranges farther south.

Among them is the narwhal tusk used as a walking cane by Captain John Wood, who owned a fleet of whalers.

The purpose served by the tusk - or "horn" - is not known; and little is known of the habits of narwhals.

The name "sea-unicorn" is sometimes applied to the narwhal.

The white whale fishery of the Eskimo, however, continued, and sealing is important; walruses are also caught and sometimes narwhal.

The narwhal is an Arctic whale, frequenting the icy circumpolar seas, and rarely seen south of 65° N.

As a rule, the teeth of the two sides of the jaws are alike in number and character, except in cases of accidental or abnormal variation, and in the tusks of the narwhal, in which the left is of immense size, and the right rudimentary.

Synonyms:

narwhale, Monodon, Monodon monoceros, genus Monodon, whale, narwal,

Antonyms:

None