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Meaning of XIPHIUS

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Xiph"i*us\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. xi`fos a sword.]
(Zo["o]l.)
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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