单词 | cetacea |
释义 | cetacean. Zoology. With plural agreement. The order of marine Mammalia containing the whales and their congeners. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > [noun] cetacea1830 1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 151 The bones of whales and other cetacea. 1833 C. Bell Hand iii. 100 In the Cetacea, we have mammalia without hind feet. 1865 P. H. Gosse Land & Sea (1874) 168 [Foraminifers and Diatoms] constitute the principal sustenance of the giant Cetacea. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2020). < n.1830 |
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