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Cetaceous
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Cetaceous
see synonyms of cetaceousadjective also: cetaceous
1.
of, relating to, or belonging to the Cetacea, an order of aquatic placental mammals having no hind limbs and a blowhole for breathing: includes toothed whales (dolphins, porpoises, etc) and whalebone whales (rorquals, right whales, etc)
noun
2.
a whale
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Cetaceous
see synonyms of cetaceous noun
1.
in some systems of classification, any of an order (Cetacea) of nearly hairless, fishlike water mammals, lacking external hind limbs, but having paddlelike forelimbs, including whales, porpoises, and dolphins
adjective
2.
of the cetaceans
: also ceˈtaceous (səˈteɪʃəs
; sətāˈshəs)Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.
Cetaceous
see synonyms of cetaceousn.
Any of various marine mammals of the order Cetacea, including the whales, dolphins, and porpoises, having the general shape of a fish with forelimbs modified to form flippers, a tail with horizontal flukes, and one or two blowholes for breathing.
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