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Cetacean   /sɪtˈeɪʃən/  /sitˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Cetacean

noun
1.
Large aquatic carnivorous mammal with fin-like forelimbs no hind limbs, including: whales; dolphins; porpoises; narwhals.  Synonyms: blower, cetacean mammal.





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"Cetacean" Quotes from Famous Books



... without proper clothing or nourishment the people are reduced to a state of complete barbarism. Hunting yields them hardly any game, fishing is almost equally unproductive of results; they are obliged to depend upon the storms which now and then fling some huge cetacean on their shores, and upon such salvage they fall tooth and nail, not even taking the ...
— Celebrated Travels and Travellers - Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century • Jules Verne


Words linked to "Cetacean" :   blower, aquatic mammal, fluke, cetaceous, blowhole, pod, whale, order Cetacea, Cetacea


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