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Dolphins' biological order
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cetacea
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Wikipedia
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Cetacea , (from Latin cetus " whale " and Greek ketos "huge-fish") are a widely distributed and diverse clade of carnivorous , finned, aquatic marine mammals . They comprise the extant parvorders Odontoceti (toothed whales including dolphins and porpoises ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cetacea \Ce*ta"ce*a\, n. pl. [NL., from L. cetus whale, Gr. ?.] (Zo["o]l.) An order of marine mammals, including the whales. Like ordinary mammals they breathe by means of lungs, and bring forth living young which they suckle for some time. The anterior ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
order of marine mammals containing whales, 1830, Modern Latin, from Latin cetus "any large sea creature" (whales, seals, dolphins), from Greek ketos "a whale, a sea monster," which is of unknown origin, + -acea . Hence cetology "the study of whales," first ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Whale-like mammals.
Usage examples of cetacea.
Captain Nemo watched the troop of cetacea playing on the waters about a mile from the Nautilus.
I could see that this basin of the Antarctic Pole serves as a place of refuge to the cetacea too closely tracked by the hunters.
Among the known sentients, only the cetacea of Cachalot or the Sumacrea of Longtunnel might, upon exerting a supreme effort, have glimpsed an intimation of the process, but no more than that.
The only specimens of quadrupeds, birds, fish and cetacea were a few wild boars, stormy petrels, albatrosses, perch and seals.
I remember the histories right, since the serum was discovered that enabled the Cetacea to utilize all of their enormous brains.
The Cetacea had possessed cognitive abilities for nearly eight hundred years now.
Do Otherwise Would Be To Surrender Everything The Cetacea Have Accomplished On This World, To Snuff Out In An Instant The Progress Of A Thousand Years.
You would suspect them the most likely of all the Cetacea to plan and carry out such an attack.
How much do we really know about the Cetacea beyond what they choose to tell us?
Since whales were involved, and since in a thousand years no human has harmed one of the Cetacea, we thought that despite the severity of the situation it would be best to have one Cetacean inflict an injury on another, if any had to be injured at all.
Even the use of a temporarily debilitating narcotic drug could be interpreted by the Cetacea as the use of violence.
Even did wwe wish to, wwe could not Arre firrst among the Cetacea the catodons, whho alone in the sea arre strronger than the orrcas.
For now, the Cetacea, led by the catodons, would have to find another path, would have to improve the path they had chosen to insure their survival and their way of life.
If I can rreach theirr station and hold it long enough to get a single burrst off towarrd the Cetacea system .
Carnivora in the last article, and now, before proceeding to the Cetacea, I will give a slight sketch of the marine Carnivora, of which, however, no examples are to be found on the Indian coasts.