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ceta·ceous

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. cetacean, cetaceousadjective

    of or relating to whales and dolphins etc

Wiktionary

  1. cetaceousadjective

    Relating to whales or more generally to any marine mammal of the order Cetacea.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Cetaceousadjective

    Of the whale kind.

    Etymology: from cete, whales, Lat.

    Such fishes as have lungs or respiration, are not without the wezzon, as whales and cetaceous animals. Thomas Browne, Vulg. Err.

    He hath created variety of these cetaceous fishes, which converse chiefly in the northern seas, whose whole body being encompassed round with a copious fat or blubber, it is enabled to abide the greatest cold of the sea-water. John Ray, on the Creation.

ChatGPT

  1. cetaceous

    Cetaceous refers to any animal belonging to the Cetacea, a group of aquatic, mostly marine mammals that includes whales, dolphins, and porpoises. The term is used to describe characteristics or attributes related to these animals.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Cetaceousadjective

    of or pertaining to the Cetacea

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of CETACEOUS in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of CETACEOUS in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2


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