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CETACEAN MAMMAL

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Dictionary entry overview: What does cetacean mammal mean?

• CETACEAN MAMMAL (noun)
The noun CETACEAN MAMMAL has 1 sense:

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

Familiarity information: CETACEAN MAMMAL used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• CETACEAN MAMMAL (noun)

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Meaning:

Large aquatic carnivorous mammal with fin-like forelimbs no hind limbs, including: whales; dolphins; porpoises; narwhals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

cetacean; cetacean mammal; blower

Hypernyms ("cetacean mammal" is a kind of...):

aquatic mammal (whales and dolphins; manatees and dugongs; walruses; seals)

Meronyms (parts of "cetacean mammal"):

fluke (either of the two lobes of the tail of a cetacean)

blowhole (the spiracle of a cetacean located far back on the skull)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cetacean mammal"):

whale (any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body and breathing through a blowhole on the head)

Holonyms ("cetacean mammal" is a member of...):

Cetacea; order Cetacea (an order of Eutheria)

pod (a group of aquatic mammals)

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