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Definition of Suborder Odontoceti
1. Noun. Toothed whales: dolphins; porpoises; sperm whales; beaked whales.
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Cetacea, Order Cetacea
Member holonyms: Toothed Whale, Family Physeteridae, Physeteridae, Family Hyperodontidae, Family Ziphiidae, Hyperodontidae, Ziphiidae, Delphinidae, Family Delphinidae, Family Platanistidae, Platanistidae
Lexicographical Neighbors of Suborder Odontoceti
Literary usage of Suborder Odontoceti
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"Like the sperm whale, they belong to the suborder Odontoceti, or the toothed whales.
They never have, however, more than four teeth regularly implanted in ..."
2. Reports Dealing with the Systematic Geology and Paleontology of Maryland by Maryland Geological Survey (1904)
"Suborder ODONTOCETI. Forms in which the skull has lost many of the typical
mammalian features retained in the previous suborder, especially in the facial ..."
3. Reports Dealing with the Systematic Geology and Paleontology of Maryland by Maryland Geological Survey (1904)
"Suborder ODONTOCETI. Forms in which the skull has lost many of the typical
mammalian features retained in the previous suborder, ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... belonging to the suborder Odontoceti, or the toothed whales. Its principal
characters are as follows: The anterior pairs of ribs are joined to the ..."
5. Whale Hunting with Gun and Camera: A Naturalist's Account of the Modern by Roy Chapman Andrews (1916)
"... coarse and widely spaced—2 to 4 grooves on the throat.—no dorsal fin—greatest
length, 48 feet. B. suborder Odontoceti. Toothed Whales. ..."
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