cetaceous
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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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
This herbivorous animal of the cetaceous family, is called by the Indians apcia and avia,* and it attains here generally ten or twelve feet in length.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Humboldt, Alexander von
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
Seven or eight years ago a cetaceous monster was stranded near the Page 24 river's mouth.
From The Awakening of China by Martin, W. A. P. (William Alexander Parsons)
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