cetacean adjective
ce·ta·cean
The adjective form of cetacean is cetaceous
C cDefinitions
- adjective cetacean of, relating to, or belonging to the Cetacea, an order of aquatic placental mammals having no hind limbs and a blowhole for breathing: includes toothed whales (dolphins, porpoises, etc) and whalebone whales (rorquals, right whales, etc) 3
- adjective cetacean of the cetaceans 3
- adjective cetacean relating to sea mammals 1
- adjective cetacean belonging to the Cetacea, an order of aquatic, chiefly marine mammals, including the whales and dolphins. 1
- adjective cetacean Pertaining to the zoologic order Cetacea, or associated with species falling under that taxonomic hierarchy. 0
- adjective cetacean More generally, relating to large aquatic mammals, either directly or by analogy. 0