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Definition of Mysticete
1. n. Any right whale, or whalebone whale. See Cetacea.
Definition of Mysticete
1. Noun. (zoology) Any of the baleen whales (of suborder ''Mysticeti'') ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mysticete
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mysticete
Literary usage of Mysticete
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue of Seals and Whales in the British Museum by John Edward Gray (1871)
"Section I. mysticete (ef. p. 57). Whales fy Dolph. p. 1. ... mysticete, Gray, Cat.
Seals # Whales SM pp. 61, 68; Synops. Head large, depressed. ..."
2. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale (1884)
"... be a ground feeder, existing on the smaller hydroid zoophytes, otherwise it
must, I think, turn on its side in seizing its prey. mysticete—WHALEBONE OR ..."
3. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1843)
"The Common Whale, Greenland Whale, or Great mysticete, appears to be the ...
The mysticete seldom remains at the surface to breathe .oncer than two minutes, ..."
4. The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), George Long (1843)
"The Common Whale, Greenland Whale, or Great mysticete, appears to be the ...
The mysticete seldom remains at the surface to breathe .onger than two minutes, ..."
5. The Marine Mammals in the Anatomical Museum of the University of Edinburgh by William Turner (1912)
"Eyeball, anterior segment from a mysticete. The cornea covered by the ... Eyeball,
posterior segment of the choroid of mysticete, showing the vasa vorticosa ..."
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