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• Around 50 million years ago, cetacean ancestors took to the water.2016 November 30, Elsa Panciroli, “How did the whale get its 'moustache'?”, in The Guardian. From the entry hoofy
• The blooded animals included man, viviparous and oviparous quadrupeds, cetaceans, fish, and birds.2008, Barbara Charton, John Tietjen, The Facts on File Dictionary of Marine Science, page 23. From the entry nonblooded
• Many species of cetacean, especially those that frequent coastal waters, ‘spyhop’.2006, Trevor Day, Whalewatcher, Marshall Editions, page 21. From the entry spyhop
• Humpbacks are known to spy-hop and are perhaps the most aerial of cetaceans.1995, Michelle A. Gilders, Reflections of a Whale-Watcher, Indiana University Press, page 47. From the entry spy-hop
• Elephant-shrews, xenarthrans, hystricognathous rodents, cetaceans, some pinnipeds, and primates depart sharply from this trend, however.1978, Terry A. Vaughan, James M. Ryan, Nicholas J. Czaplewski, Mammalogy, page 355. From the entry xenarthran
• Calambokidis, who has spent more than 50 years studying cetaceans, suspects Whale 52 may be a hybrid: part blue whale, part fin whale.2025 April 2, Avery Schuyler Nunn, “What ‘the world’s loneliest whale’ may be telling us about climate change”, in Grist, archived from…. From the entry flue whale
• For all the terrible harm that humans have done to cetaceans, drastically reducing their abundance and range, the baiji was the first of them that we ever completely extinguished.2021 March 30, J. B. MacKinnon, “An Entire Group of Whales Has Somehow Escaped Human Attention”, in The Atlantic. From the entry baiji
• Sponging is worth thinking about in some detail because it illustrates many of the challenges and sources of controversy in studying social learning and culture in wild cetaceans.2015, Hal Whitehead, Luke Rendell, The Cultural Lives of Whales and, page 109. From the entry sponge

Meaning of cetacean

1. adjective Pertaining to the zoologic infraorder Cetacea, or associated with species falling under that taxonomic hierarchy.
2. adjective Resembling or relating to large aquatic mammals.
3. noun A marine mammal belonging to the infraorder Cetacea, including dolphins, porpoises, and whales, characterized by a streamlined body, one or two blowholes, tail flukes, and fin-like forelimbs without hind limbs.

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How do you use cetacean in a sentence?

Cetacean is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “The poached blubber was definitely cetacean in origin, but the particular species could not be identified.”

What is a short sentence with cetacean?

“Around 50 million years ago, cetacean ancestors took to the water.”

What does cetacean mean?

Cetacean means pertaining to the zoologic infraorder Cetacea, or associated with species falling under that taxonomic hierarchy.