Cetacean

Quick meaning: Cetacean is an adjective meaning Pertaining to the zoologic infraorder Cetacea, or associated with species falling under that taxonomic hierarchy.

Meaning

Pertaining to the zoologic infraorder Cetacea, or associated with species falling under that taxonomic hierarchy.

More Meanings

1. (by extension, sometimes figurative) Resembling or relating to large aquatic mammals.
2. A marine mammal belonging to the infraorder Cetacea, including dolphins, porpoises, and whales, characterized by a streamlined body, one or two blowholes, tail flukes, and fin-like forelimbs without hind limbs.

Example Sentences

The obese woman, ungainly on land, moved with a kind of cetacean grace in the water.

The poached blubber was definitely cetacean in origin, but the particular species could not be identified.

The tour promised spiritual experiences with humpback whales and other cetaceans, but all we saw were seagulls and a dead sea otter.

[…] I would propose that external dependencies to the document would be automatically downloaded if a local copy doesn't exist so that the core distribution no longer is quite so cetacean in size.

Word Forms

• cetaceans

Synonyms for cetacean

Depending on context, synonyms include cetaceous, blower.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include blower, whale, cetacea, narwal, cephalous, cephalate.

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