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Any large marine mammal, as a seal, walrus, or cetacean.
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One of the Cetacea, or collectively, the Cetacea.
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Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a cetacean of the genus Xiphius or family Xiphiidae.
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Any aquatic mammal of the order Cetacea, especially any one of the large species, some of which become nearly one hundred feet long. Whales are hunted chiefly for their oil and baleen, or whalebone.
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An order of marine mammals, including the whales. Like ordinary mammals they breathe by means of lungs, and bring forth living young which they suckle for some time. The anterior limbs are changed to paddles; the tail flukes are horizontal. There are two living suborders:
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A nostril or spiracle in the top of the head of a whale or other cetacean.
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An arctic cetacean (Monodon monocerous), about twenty feet long. The male usually has one long, twisted, pointed canine tooth, or tusk projecting forward from the upper jaw like a horn, whence it is called also sea unicorn, unicorn fish, and unicorn whale. Sometimes two horns are developed, side by side.
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A cetacean allied to the grampus; -- called also bottle-nosed whale.
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A subdivision of Cetacea, including the sperm whale, dolphins, etc.; the toothed whales.
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A cetacean of the Dolphin family, of several species, as Delphinus Tursio and Lagenorhyncus leucopleurus, of Europe.
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Of or pertaining to the Cetacea.
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A cetacean, or a sirenian.
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Any right whale, or whalebone whale. See Cetacea.
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One of the Cetacea.
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Any small cetacean of the genus Phocaena, especially P. communis, or P. phocaena, of Europe, and the closely allied American species (P. Americana). The color is dusky or blackish above, paler beneath. They are closely allied to the dolphins, but have a shorter snout. Called also harbor porpoise, herring hag, puffing pig, and snuffer.
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A toothed delphinoid cetacean, of the genus Grampus, esp. G. griseus of Europe and America, which is valued for its oil. It grows to be fifteen to twenty feet long; its color is gray with white streaks. Called also cowfish. The California grampus is G. Stearnsii.
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Having the testicles naturally concealed, as in the case of the cetaceans.
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The description or natural history of cetaceous animals.
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Having finlike appendages or flukes instead of legs, as a cetacean.
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A genus of cetaceans having a long, pointed, bony beak, usually two tusklike teeth in the lower jaw, but no teeth in the upper jaw.
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