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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Nar·whal n.  [Written also narwhale and narwal.] Zool. An arctic cetacean (Monodon monocerous), about twenty feet long.  The male usually has one long, twisted, pointed canine tooth, or tusk, projecting forward from the upper jaw like a horn, whence it is called also sea unicorn, unicorn fish, and unicorn whale. Sometimes two horns are developed, side by side.