Narwhal
[nahr-wuh l] /ˈnɑr wəl/
noun
1.
a small arctic whale, Monodon monoceros, the male of which has a long, spirally twisted tusk extending forward from the upper jaw.
/ˈnɑːwəl/
noun
1.
an arctic toothed whale, Monodon monoceros, having a black-spotted whitish skin and, in the male, a long spiral tusk: family Monodontidae
n.
1650s, from Danish and Norwegian narhval, probably a metathesis of Old Norse nahvalr, literally “corpse-whale,” from na “corpse” + hvalr “whale” (see whale). So called from resemblance of its whitish color to that of dead bodies. The first element is from PIE *nau- “death; to be exhausted” (cf. Old English ne, neo, Gothic naus “corpse,” Old Cornish naun, Old Church Slavonic navi, Old Prussian nowis “corpse,” Lettish nawe “death,” Lithuanian novyti “to torture, kill”).
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