cetacean
Meaning of cetacean
noun
- An animal belonging to the order Cetacea, including dolphins, porpoises, and whales.
The tour promised spiritual experiences with humpback whales and other cetaceans, but all we saw were seagulls and a dead sea otter.
- 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.
- (by extension, sometimes figurative) Resembling or relating to large aquatic mammals.
The obese woman, ungainly on land, moved with a kind of cetacean grace in the water.
Information about cetacean
- The plural form of cetacean is: cetaceans.
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Hyphenation of cetacean
cetacean
- It consists of 1 syllables and 8 chars.
- cetacean is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
cetacean synonyms
Meaning cetaceous:
Meaning cetacean mammal:
Translation of cetacean
Words that rhyme with cetacean
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