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UK
/blˈəʊhəʊl/
]
[ US /ˈbɫoʊˌhoʊɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈbɫoʊˌhoʊɫ/ ]
NOUN
- a hole for the escape of gas or air
- the spiracle of a cetacean located far back on the skull
How To Use blowhole In A Sentence
- The actual facts showed that they are effective in blowhole formed.
- Then up * ut of the blowhole, muffled but clear, came Pete's answer. THREE IN ONE
- A calf will hump up onto the back of the sleeping mother, breach onto her, cover her blowhole with his tail.
- Blowholes spew foam, magicking instant tiny rainbows. Times, Sunday Times
- Other distinguishing characteristics of this group include a double blowhole, a symmetrical skull, right and left halves of the the lower jaw unfused, and a single osseus sternum.
- Whales have blowholes on the top of their heads because they submerge themselves, and hippos have giant, high placed nostrils for the same reason. Movie Review: Avatar and a Comparison I « Colleen Anderson
- `After he saw he couldn't escape, Captain One-Ear emptied all his stolen treasure down the blowhole. THREE IN ONE
- While the rest of us stood agog as the spray from the whales' blowholes misted over the deck, three divers managed to slip into the water.
- Gobaith slithered up to the whale's head, in front of its blowhole. WATER BOOK THREE: TRANSFORMATION
- A burly man raises a stick with a hook on the end to strike a baby seal as it surfaces from a blowhole in the ice.