monodon

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

MON'ODON, noun [Gr. having one tooth or shoot.] The unicorn fish, or sea-unicorn, which has a remarkable horn projecting from its head. [This horn is really a tusk, of which there are two, but only one of them is usually developed.] It is called also the monoceros, or horned narwhal. Its usual size is form sixteen to twenty feet.
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