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CETACEAN

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

blower; cetacean; cetacean mammal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

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

Meronyms (parts of "cetacean"):

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"):

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

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

Cetacea; order Cetacea (an order of Eutheria)

pod (a group of aquatic mammals)

Derivation:

cetacean (of or relating to whales and dolphins etc)

 II. (adjective) 

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Meaning:

Of or relating to whales and dolphins etc

Synonyms:

cetacean; cetaceous

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

Cetacea (an order of Eutheria)

Derivation:

Cetacea (an order of Eutheria)

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

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