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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The typical subfamily of the Physeteridæ, containing the genera Physeter and Kogia.
  • noun This subfamily restricted, by the exclusion of the genus Kogia as the type of a separate subfamily, to the ordinary large sperm-whales of the genus Physeter.

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