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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

In reality, it was the tusk of a cetaceous animal inhabiting the northern ocean, and known as the sea-unicorn or narwhal.

From Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery by Lawrence, Robert Means

These concretions are remarkable from the great number of large silicified bones, apparently of cetaceous animals, which they contain; and likewise of a shark's teeth, closely resembling those of the Carcharias megalodon.

From Geological Observations on South America by Darwin, Charles

But they are a cetaceous fish, very good for curing.

From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us