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cetacean
superiority

ce·ta·cean

cetacean

 
pronunciation:
s teI shn
parts of speech:
adjective, noun
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part of speech: adjective
definition: of or belonging to the group of aquatic mammals that includes whales, porpoises, and dolphins.
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(adj.)cetacean + noun anesthesia, aspect, biologist, carcass, death, ecology, effort, evolution, lineage, locomotor, morphology, population, program, record, research, researcher, salute, sample, serenade, sighting, society, species, survey, synthesis, technique, tracking, twig, vanguard, vicinity  [See all][See only the most frequent]
 
part of speech: noun
definition: any of an order of aquatic mammals, such as dolphins and whales, that have paddlelike forelimbs or flippers and no exterior hind limbs.
 
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adjective + (n.)cetacean celebrated, endangered, impatient, missing, mottled, tropical
verb + (n.)cetacean diagnose, hunt, portray, resume, resurface, use
noun + (n.)cetacean Help distress, dolphin, extinction, geographer, reintroduction, rescuer, swimming, tropics, whale
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