Meaning of cetacea | Babel Free

Definitions

Whale-like mammals.

plural, plural-only

Examples

“Of cetacea, or whale-like mammals, sixty-five; ruminantia, or cud-chewers, one hundred and seventy-seven; pachydermata, or thick-skinned mammals, such as the horse, hog, and elephant, forty-one; edentata, like the sloth and ant-eater, thirty-five; rodentia, or gnawers, such as the rat, squirrel, and beaver, six hundred and seventeen; carnivora, or flesh-eaters, four hundred and forty-six; cheiroptera, or bats, three hundred and twenty-eight; quadrumana, or monkeys, two hundred and twenty-one; and marsupialia, or pouched mammals, like the opossum and kangaroo, one hundred and thirty-seven.”

“But here we give no such extracts, but content ourselves with four short skits, having the cetacea for their subject.”

“--Acalephae[1] are plentiful, so much so, indeed, that they occasionally tempt the larger cetacea into the Gulf of Manaar.”

“PORPOISES AT MORETON BAY. Among the marine animals of Moreton Bay are two cetacea of great interest.”

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