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cetacean

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I mean, odds are you’re the least intelligent paleoethnobotanist and cetacean bioacoustician I’ve ever met, but perhaps the most intelligent something_else.

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Quick take

An animal belonging to the infraorder Cetacea, including dolphins, porpoises, and whales.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of cetacean gathered in one view.

noun

An animal belonging to the infraorder Cetacea, including dolphins, porpoises, and whales.

adjective

Pertaining to the zoologic infraorder Cetacea, or associated with species falling under that taxonomic hierarchy.

adjective

(by extension, sometimes figurative) Resembling or relating to large aquatic mammals.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for cetacean.

adjective

Pertaining to the zoologic infraorder Cetacea, or associated with species falling under that taxonomic hierarchy.

See also: blower, cetaceous, cetacean-mammal

Example sentences

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I mean, odds are you’re the least intelligent paleoethnobotanist and cetacean bioacoustician I’ve ever met, but perhaps the most intelligent something_else.

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My guess is that your cetacean originates from the Sui-Tang under a nihilizing influence of Buddhist rationalizations.

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Given the list of enemies of the great cetacean, i bet it has learned to threat assess in 360 degrees.

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A primate or cetacean brain doesn't take the billions of dollars and how much energy to train on terabytes of data.

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Evolutionnists have no clue how to explain the origin of the cetacean.

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I suspect we are not orders of magnitudes more intelligent than some of our cetacean friends in the deep sea.

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And that 'cetacean' is not in most people's vocabulary?

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Imagine our finding sentient cetacean analogues under Europa's ice.

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Neither related to human evolution (one was about modern extreme poverty and the other about cetacean evolution), but I just couldn’t let them go.

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Seek cetacean counselling before holding your breath.

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When we Uplift our Cetacean friends, is this sort of awkward appropriation really how you want to meet the newly-conscious masters of 3/4s of the planet?

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I went through a Cetacean and cephalopods obsession last year.

Quote examples

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Vision is evolutionarily older and more “primitive”, while language is uniquely human [or maybe, more broadly, primate, cetacean, cephalopod, avian...] symbolic, and abstract — arguably a different order of cognition altogether.

Proper noun examples

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Cetacean brains are huge and deeply folded.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use cetacean in a sentence?

I mean, odds are you’re the least intelligent paleoethnobotanist and cetacean bioacoustician I’ve ever met, but perhaps the most intelligent something_else.

What does cetacean mean?

An animal belonging to the infraorder Cetacea, including dolphins, porpoises, and whales.

What part of speech is cetacean?

cetacean is commonly used as noun, adjective.