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Definition of Xiphus
||Xiph"i*us (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr.
xi`fos a sword.] (Zoöl.) 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.
||Xiph"i*us (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr.
xi`fos a sword.] (Zoöl.) 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.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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The proper spelling of this word is: Xiphius
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