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Webster 1913 Edition

Xiphius

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Xiph′i-us

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Noun.
[NL., fr. Gr.
ξίφοσ
a sword.]
(Zool.)
A genus of cetaceans having a long, pointed, bony beak, usually two tusklike teeth in the lower jaw, but no teeth in the upper jaw.

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