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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024mys•ti•cete (mis′tə sēt′),USA pronunciation n. [Zool.]- Zoologyany whale of the suborder Mysticeti, as finback and humpback whales, characterized by a symmetrical skull, paired blowholes, and rows of baleen plates for feeding on plankton. Cf. odontocete.
- Greek mystíkētos or mŷs tò kêtos whalebone whale, literally, mouse-whale (term used in extant texts of Aristotle, perh. a corruption of *mystakókētos mustache-whale; see mustachio, cet-)
- Neo-Latin Mysticeti, plural of Mysticetus
- 1825–35
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