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Cetacea

noun
1.
An order of Eutheria.  Synonym: order Cetacea.



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"Cetacea" Quotes from Famous Books



... a clever fellow, who excels in dressing these various products of the ocean. Taste all these dishes. Here is a preserve of sea-cucumber, which a Malay would declare to be unrivalled in the world; here is a cream, of which the milk has been furnished by the cetacea, and the sugar by the great fucus of the North Sea; and, lastly, permit me to offer you some preserve of anemones, which is equal to that ...
— Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea • Jules Verne
... reptilian characters not to be found in the true members of this class, which form its bulk at present. The Pterodactyles, which preceded the class of birds, and the Ichthyosauri, which preceded the Cetacea, are other examples of such prophetic types."—(Agassiz, "Contributions, Essay ...
— Evolution and Ethics and Other Essays • Thomas H. Huxley


Words linked to "Cetacea" :   cetacean, Eutheria, family Monodontidae, cetacean mammal, order Cetacea, subclass Eutheria, Monodontidae, cetaceous, blower, animal order, suborder Odontoceti, Mysticeti, Odontoceti, suborder Mysticeti


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