The poached blubber was definitely cetacean in origin, but the particular species could not be identified.
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Cetacean
//sɪˈteɪʃən//
Synonyms for "cetacean" (51 found)
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Adjective(1 words)
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Related words (25)
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1 entriesderived
2 entriesis a
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10 entriesTranslations
23 translations across 21 languages.
Breton
1 entries- morvil noun (an animal belonging to the infraorder Cetacea)
Bulgarian
1 entries- китообразно noun (an animal belonging to the infraorder Cetacea)
Catalan
1 entries- cetaci noun (an animal belonging to the infraorder Cetacea)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 鯨目動物 /鲸目动物 noun (an animal belonging to the infraorder Cetacea)
Czech
1 entries- kytovec noun (an animal belonging to the infraorder Cetacea)
Dutch
1 entries- walvisachtige noun (an animal belonging to the infraorder Cetacea)
Esperanto
1 entries- balena noun (relating to organisms from Cetacea)
Finnish
2 entries- valas noun (an animal belonging to the infraorder Cetacea)
- valas noun (relating to organisms from Cetacea)
French
1 entries- cétacé noun (an animal belonging to the infraorder Cetacea)
German
1 entries- Waltier noun (an animal belonging to the infraorder Cetacea)
Greek
1 entries- κήτος noun (an animal belonging to the infraorder Cetacea)
Ido
1 entries- cetaceo noun (an animal belonging to the infraorder Cetacea)
Italian
1 entries- cetaceo noun (an animal belonging to the infraorder Cetacea)
Manx
1 entries- whayl noun (an animal belonging to the infraorder Cetacea)
Polish
1 entries- waleń noun (an animal belonging to the infraorder Cetacea)
Portuguese
1 entries- cetáceo noun (an animal belonging to the infraorder Cetacea)
Romanian
1 entries- cetaceu noun (an animal belonging to the infraorder Cetacea)
Russian
2 entries- кито́вый noun (an animal belonging to the infraorder Cetacea)
- китообра́зный noun (an animal belonging to the infraorder Cetacea)
Spanish
1 entries- cetáceo noun (an animal belonging to the infraorder Cetacea)
Swedish
1 entries- val noun (an animal belonging to the infraorder Cetacea)
Welsh
1 entries- morfilog noun (an animal belonging to the infraorder Cetacea)
Sample sentences
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She was not as demure as she was in Roanoke; she seemed at the beginning rather like she felt more comfortable in the oceanic atmosphere harpooning her opponent. Indeed, at times, it seemed she was Ahab and the witherwin Allen was her Moby Dick; but while she sails her Pequod just as intently toward a singular goal, her alastor is much less clear and she bears no visible scars of a cetacean attacker.
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The obese woman, ungainly on land, moved with a kind of cetacean grace in the water.
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[…] 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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