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单词 cetacean
释义

cetacean /si-tāˈshi-ən or -shən/

noun and adjective

(a member) of the order Cetacea of aquatic mammals having streamlined fish-like form, including the toothed whales, or Odontoceti (sperm whales, bottle-noses, dolphins, etc) and the baleen whales, or Mystacoceti (right whale, hump-backs, rorquals)

ORIGIN: Gr kētos a sea-monster

cetāˈceous adjective

cete /sēt/ noun

A whale or sea-monster

cetolˈogy noun

The study of whales

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