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noun 
  1. an Arctic cetacean, about 20 feet long; the male has a single twisted pointed canine tooth or tusk projecting forward like a horn.
Translations: 
  • Dutch: narwal
  • German: Narwal
  • Italian: narvalo
  • Spanish: narval
  • French: narval
Etymology: From Dutch narwal or Danish narhval, wal/hval meaning "whale" and nar- from Old Norse nír "corpse". Cf. Icelandic níhvalur.

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