cetaceous
Americanadjective
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That cetaceous simile deliberately mirrors Clute’s own baroque style and might also be the best description of his critical persona that anyone has ever given.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 10, 2022
Fragments of cetaceous blubber bounded high in the air.
From Time Magazine Archive
But they are a cetaceous fish, very good for curing.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
While talking of cetaceous animals, to which order the porpoise belongs, I must remark on a very common error held by seaman as well as landsmen, that whales spout out water.
From My First Voyage to Southern Seas by Alfred Pearse
CE, CI, TI, before a vowel, have the sound of sh; as in cetaceous, gracious, motion, partial, ingratiate; pronounced cetashus, grashus, moshun, parshal, ingrashiate.
From The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference by Joseph Triemens
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