cetaceous
cetaceous adjective: relating to whales or more generally to any marine mammal of the infraorder Cetacea.
Adjective
cetaceous (not comparable)
- Relating to whales or more generally to any marine mammal of the infraorder Cetacea.
Origin of cetaceous
Cetacea + -ous
Words that rhyme with cetaceous
- gracious
- sequacious
- tenacious
- vexatious
- hellacious
- herbaceous
- ostentatious
- rapacious
- sebaceous
- vinaceous
- vivacious
- -aceous
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- acanthaceous
- alsinaceous
- audacious
- capacious
- contumacious
- cretaceous
- fallacious
- farinaceous
- flirtatious
- inefficacious
- juglandaceous
- mendacious
- micaceous
- orchidaceous
- perspicacious
- pertinacious
- salacious
- saponaceous
- spacious
- strobilaceous
- veracious
- voracious
- Acacius
- acinaceous
- alliaceous
- amentaceous
- amylaceous
- annonaceous
- apocynaceous
- argillaceous
- atramentaceous
- avenaceous
- bardacious
- bulbaceous
- camphoraceous
- camphrous
- carbonaceous
- cucurbitaceous
- curvaceous
- dicacious
- edacious
- efficacious
- erinaceous
- fabaceous
- frumentaceous
- lamentacious
- lauraceous
- liliaceous
Questions about cetaceous
- What does cetaceous mean?
- Cetaceous means relating to whales or more generally to any marine mammal of the infraorder Cetacea.
- What part of speech is cetaceous?
- Cetaceous is an adjective.
Words near cetaceous in the dictionary
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