Definitions for cetacean

cetacean ce·ta·cean

Spelling: [si-tey-shuh n]
IPA: /sɪˈteɪ ʃən/

Cetacean is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 126 anagrams from letters in cetacean (aacceent).

Definitions for cetacean

noun

  1. a cetacean mammal.

adjective

  1. belonging to the Cetacea, an order of aquatic, chiefly marine mammals, including the whales and dolphins.

Origin of cetacean

1830-40; New Latin Cetace(a) name of the order (see cet-, -acea) + -an

Examples for cetacean

Dissection of a small cetacean sent to me from Orkney in the month of May 1835.

The tail was of the cetacean pattern, and thus like that of Halicore.

By nature, this cetacean prefers a cold climate to a warm one.

Sometimes two or more species of cetacean are found together.

The lumbar vertebrae are fewer than in any other cetacean, being only two.

This cetacean was obtained on the coast of the island of Rugen, in the Baltic.

But a grampus is a cetacean, and that is the family to which whales belong.

This species of cetacean is the Hyperoodon rostratus, and is from twenty to twenty-six feet long, with teeth in the lower jaw.

Take hold of the hand, and you are struck with its cetacean feel.

There is one passage which seems to imply that the word tannin may signify a cetacean.

Word Value for cetacean
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

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