Definition of "cetaceous" []

• Relating to whales or more generally to any marine mammal of the order Cetacea. (adjective)

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• "I am staying at the home of a friend who is a great admirer of Moby Dick and whose home is replete with cetaceous memorabilia."
• "If we suppose the case of the discovery of a skeleton of a Greenland whale in a fossil state, not a single cetaceous animal being known to exist, what naturalist would have ventured conjecture on the possibility of a carcass so gigantic being supported on the minute crustacea and mollusca living in the frozen seas of the extreme North?"
• "Lang Ca Ong, the Temple of the Whales, was built in 1911 and had about it a distinctly non-Buddhist air, with its cases of cetaceous skeletons."