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cetacean

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8 lettersPronunciation /sɪˈteɪʃən/Part of speech noun, adjectiveSorted aacceentStarts with CEnds with N0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. large aquatic carnivorous mammal with fin-like forelimbs no hind limbs, including: whales, dolphins, porpoises, narwhals

Word origin

From translingual Cetacea, from Latin cētus (“whale”), + -an.

Used in a sentence

  • The poached blubber was definitely cetacean in origin, but the particular species could not be identified.
  • The obese woman, ungainly on land, moved with a kind of cetacean grace in the water.
  • […] I would propose that external dependencies to the document would be automatically downloaded if a local copy doesn't exist so that the core distribution no longer is quite so cetacean in size.

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