Cetacean Definition

sĭ-tāshən
noun
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.
Webster's New World
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adjective
Of the cetaceans.
Webster's New World

Pertaining to the zoologic order Cetacea, or associated with species falling under that taxonomic hierarchy.

The poached blubber was definitely cetacean in origin, but the particular species could not be identified.
Wiktionary

More generally, relating to large aquatic mammals, either directly or by analogy.

The obese woman, ungainly on land, moved with a kind of cetacean grace in the water.
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Other Word Forms of Cetacean

Noun

Singular:
cetacean
Plural:
cetaceans

Origin of Cetacean

  • From New Latin Cētācea order name from Latin cētus whale Cetus

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • New Latin cetacea, from Latin cetus (“whale”).

    From Wiktionary

Cetacean Sentence Examples

  • It is the commonest cetacean in the seas round the British Isles, and not infrequently ascends the Thames, having been seen as high as Richmond; it has also been observed in the Seine at Neuilly, near Paris.

  • Andrews has, moreover, not only brought forward additional evidence in favour of this most remarkable line of descent, but is confident - which Professor Fraas was not - that Zeuglodon itself is an ancestral cetacean, and consequently that whales are the highly modified descendants of creodonts.

  • He believes that the cetacean approaches not only rocks, but ships, in the hope of freeing itself from its lodgers.

  • To read about the stranded cetacean, Dan Jarvis from BDMLR has very kindly produced this click here report for you to read.

  • Compared with many terrestrial mammals, little is known of cetacean natural history.

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