Usually means: Opening for breathing in cetaceans.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. blowhole: Merriam-Webster
  2. blowhole, blowhole: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. blowhole: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. blowhole: Collins English Dictionary
  5. blowhole: Vocabulary.com
  6. Blowhole, blowhole: Wordnik
  7. blowhole: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. blowhole: Wiktionary
  9. blowhole: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. blowhole: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. blowhole: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Blowhole, blowhole: Dictionary.com
  13. Blowhole (anatomy), Blowhole (biology), Blowhole (geology), Blowhole: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Blowhole: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. blowhole: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. blowhole: Rhymezone
  17. Blowhole: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. blowhole: FreeDictionary.org
  19. blowhole: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. blowhole: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Blowhole (disambiguation), blowhole: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Blowhole (disambiguation), blowhole: Medical dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. blowhole: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. blowhole, blowhole (whale): Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. CAVE AND KARST TERMINOLOGY (No longer online)

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Metal Terminology (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (marine biology) The spiracle, on the top of the head, through which cetaceans breathe.
noun:  (marine biology) A hole in sea ice where cetaceans and pinnipeds come to breathe.
noun:  (geology) A top-facing opening to a cavity in the ground very near an ocean's shore, leading to a marine cave from which wave water or bursts of air are expelled.
noun:  (geology) A vent for the escape of steam or other gas.
noun:  (metallurgy) An unintended cavity filled with air in a casting product.
noun:  (computer hardware) A vertical opening in the top of a computer case that lets hot air (primarily from the CPU heat sink) escape quickly.
verb:  (metallurgy, ambitransitive) To fill or be filled with air in an unintended cavity.

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