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Definition of Cetaceans
1. cetacean [n] - See also: cetacean
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cetaceans
Literary usage of Cetaceans
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1897)
"As regards the cetaceans of ... but cetaceans of every kind are abundant. ...
four genera of Seals and two of cetaceans entirely restricted to its area. ..."
2. The Sea and Its Living Wonders: A Popular Account of the Marvels of the Deep by Georg Hartwig (1892)
"THE cetaceans. General Remarks on the Organisation of the cetaceans.—The Large
Greenland Whale.—His Food and Enemies.—The Fin-Back or Rorqual. ..."
3. Proceedings of the Essex Institute by Essex Institute (1871)
"Synopsis of the Primary Subdivisions of the cetaceans. Br THEODORE GILL, MA, MD, Ph.
D. THE interest that is now being manifested in the cetaceans has ..."
4. American Animals: A Popular Guide to the Mammals of North America North of by Witmer Stone, William Everett Cram (1902)
"The cetaceans are entirely carnivorous, and their food generally consists of
small mollusks, shrimps and fishes. They frequently associate in companies or ..."
5. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1868)
"Notice of some extinct cetaceans. ... a remarkable tooth and the fragment of
another, which I recognize as having belonged to an extinct genus of cetaceans, ..."
6. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1869)
"... and the elongated cetaceans.] — Editor. HAIR OF DIFFERENT RACES OF MEN. M.
Pruner-Boy has shown that the hair is not always black in the negress. ..."
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