| 释义 |
cetaceous, a. Zool.|sɪˈteɪʃəs|
Also 7 cetacious, (erron.) setaceous.
[f. as prec.; see -aceous.]
Belonging to the order Cetacea; of the whale kind, of the nature of the whale.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 203 Cetacious and cartilagineous fishes. 1660Boyle New Exp. Phys.-Mech. Digress. 370 Such [fishes] as are not Setaceous..have not Respiration, properly so call'd. 1759B. Stillingfleet Misc. Tracts (1762) 84 The cetaceous fish have warm blood, and they bring forth their young alive, and suckle them. 1802Bingley Anim. Biog. (1813) I. 19 The Cetaceous Animals..Linnæus's seventh Order of Mammalia.
transf.1862B. Taylor Home & Abr. Ser. ii. 418, I suspected a huge cetaceous mirthfulness behind this repose. |