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All cetes synonyms

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noun cetes

  • mammal — any vertebrate of the class Mammalia, having the body more or less covered with hair, nourishing the young with milk from the mammary glands, and, with the exception of the egg-laying monotremes, giving birth to live young.
  • whale — any of the larger marine mammals of the order Cetacea, especially as distinguished from the smaller dolphins and porpoises, having a fishlike body, forelimbs modified into flippers, and a head that is horizontally flattened.
  • grampus — a cetacean, Grampus griseus, of the dolphin family, widely distributed in northern seas.
  • dolphin — any of several chiefly marine, cetacean mammals of the family Delphinidae, having a fishlike body, numerous teeth, and the front of the head elongated into a beaklike projection.
  • beluga — a large white sturgeon, Acipenser (or Huso) huso, of the Black and Caspian Seas: a source of caviar and isinglass
  • porpoise — any of several small, gregarious cetaceans of the genus Phocoena, usually blackish above and paler beneath, and having a blunt, rounded snout, especially the common porpoise, P. phocoena, of both the North Atlantic and Pacific.
  • orca — the killer whale, Orcinus orca.
  • whopper — WarGames
  • cetacean — Cetaceans are animals such as whales, dolphins, and porpoises.
  • baleen — whalebone
  • finback — any baleen whale of the genus Balaenoptera, having a prominent dorsal fin, especially B. physalus, of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts; rorqual: an endangered species.
  • rorqual — any of several whales of the genus Balaenoptera; finback.
  • narwhal — a small arctic whale, Monodon monoceros, the male of which has a long, spirally twisted tusk extending forward from the upper jaw.
  • mammals — any vertebrate of the class Mammalia, having the body more or less covered with hair, nourishing the young with milk from the mammary glands, and, with the exception of the egg-laying monotremes, giving birth to live young.
  • whalesBay of, an inlet of the Ross Sea, in Antarctica: location of Little America.
  • cetaceans — Plural form of cetacean.
  • cete — a group of badgers
  • ceta — Comprehensive Employment and Training Act
  • orc — any of several cetaceans, as a grampus.
  • sei — sei whale.
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