Cetacean synonyms

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porpoise
Any of several related aquatic mammals, such as the dolphins.
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grampus
The killer whale, Orsinus orca.
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cete
A group of badgers.
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narwal
Archaic form of narwhal.
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orca
A black-and-white toothed whale (Orcinus orca) that feeds on large fish, squid, and marine mammals such as seals and other whales and dolphins.
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whale
Any of several species of large sea mammals of the order Cetacea.
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cetaceous
Relating to whales or more generally to any marine mammal of the order Cetacea.
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baleen whale toothed whale (related)
Any of various, often very large aquatic mammals of the order Cetacea, having a hairless body that resembles that of a fish. Cetaceans have an elongated skull, a flat, horizontal tail, forelimbs modified into broad flippers, and no hind limbs. They breathe through blowholes located usually at the top of the skull. Whales, dolphins, and porpoises are cetaceans.
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cetacean mammal
large aquatic carnivorous mammal with fin-like forelimbs no hind limbs, including: whales; dolphins; porpoises; narwhals
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blower
One that blows, especially a mechanical device, such as a fan, that produces a current of air.
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blackfish
Any of several dark-colored toothed whales, especially the pilot whale.
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mammal (related)
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basking-shark (related)
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seabird (related)
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strandings (related)
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leatherback (related)
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minke (related)
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sea-turtle (related)
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dugong (related)
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invertebrate (related)
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cetaceans (related)
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beluga
Caviar made from the roe of this fish, having large grayish grains.
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dolphin
A carnivorous aquatic mammal inhabiting mostly in the shallower seas of the continental shelves, famed for its intelligence and occasional willingness to approach humans.
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Find another word for cetacean. In this page you can discover 23 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for cetacean, like: porpoise, grampus, cete, narwal, orca, whale, cetaceous, baleen whale toothed whale, cetacean mammal, blower and blackfish.
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  • 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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