Cetacean Synonyms

sĭ-tāshən
Large aquatic carnivorous mammal with fin-like forelimbs no hind limbs, including: whales; dolphins; porpoises; narwhals
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. mammal
  2. beluga
  3. cete
  4. porpoise
  5. dolphin
  6. cetacean mammal
  7. grampus
  8. narwal
  9. orca
  10. blackfish
  11. whale
  12. blower
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.
Synonyms:
  1. cetaceous
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Of or relating to whales and dolphins etc
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. cetaceous

Words Related to Cetacean

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. baleen whale toothed whale
  2. basking-shark
  3. seabird
  4. strandings
  5. leatherback
  6. minke
  7. sea-turtle
  8. dugong
  9. invertebrate

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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