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noun Etymology: ultimately from Latin cetus whale, from Greek ketos Date: 1835 any of an order (Cetacea) of aquatic mostly marine mammals that includes the whales, dolphins, porpoises, and related forms and that have a torpedo-shaped nearly hairless body, paddle-shaped forelimbs but no hind limbs, one or two nares opening externally at the top of the head, and a horizontally flattened tail used for locomotion • ~ adjective • cetaceous adjective ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. & adj. --n. any marine mammal of the order Cetacea with streamlined hairless body and dorsal blowhole for breathing, including whales, dolphins, and porpoises. --adj. of cetaceans. Derivatives cetaceous adj. Etymology: mod.L Cetacea f. L cetus f. Gk ketos whale ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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~ n technical a mammal (=an animal which feeds its babies on milk) that lives in the sea, such as a whale - cetacean adj ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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