Definitions for cetaceans

cetaceans ce·ta·cean

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

Cetaceans is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 270 anagrams from letters in cetaceans (aacceenst).

Definitions for cetaceans

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 cetaceans

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

Examples for cetaceans

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

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

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

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

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

Sometimes two or more species of cetacean are found together.

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

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

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

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

Word Value for cetaceans
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

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