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CETACEA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An order of Eutheria
Synonyms:
Cetacea; order Cetacea
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Cetacea" is a kind of...):
animal order (the order of animals)
Meronyms (members of "Cetacea"):
blower; cetacean; cetacean mammal (large aquatic carnivorous mammal with fin-like forelimbs no hind limbs, including: whales; dolphins; porpoises; narwhals)
Mysticeti; suborder Mysticeti (baleen whales: right whales; rorquals; blue whales; humpbacks)
Odontoceti; suborder Odontoceti (toothed whales: dolphins; porpoises; sperm whales; beaked whales)
family Monodontidae; Monodontidae (narwhals)
Holonyms ("Cetacea" is a member of...):
Eutheria; subclass Eutheria (all mammals except monotremes and marsupials)
Derivation:
cetacean; cetaceous (of or relating to whales and dolphins etc)
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