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Cetacean

noun

Large aquatic carnivorous mammal with fin-like forelimbs no hind limbs, including: whales; dolphins; porpoises; narwhals. Synonyms: blower, cetacean mammal.

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"Cetacean" Quotes from Famous Books

... he goes!" Like a Titan in throes, With his wallopping tail, and his wave-churning nose, The spouting Cetacean Colossus! Eh? Harpoon that Monster! The thought makes one pale, With one thundering thwack of that thumping big tail, To the skies in small splinters ...

— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 103, July 23, 1892 • Various

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... not have been picked out with greater accuracy if the whaler had known the exact spot where the big cetacean was going to appear. Within thirty feet of the boat the water began to swirl ...

— The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries • Francis Rolt-Wheeler

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... reporter of his sayings. However that may be in this case, let me contrast in a single glance the momentary effect in conversation of the two neighbors, Hawthorne and Emerson. Speech seemed like a kind of travail to Hawthorne. One must harpoon him like a cetacean with questions to make him talk at all. Then the words came from him at last, with bashful manifestations, like those of a young girl, almost—words that gasped themselves forth, seeming to leave a great deal more behind them than they told, and died out discontented with themselves, like the ...

— The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. X (of X) - America - II, Index • Various

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Words linked to "Cetacean" : order Cetacea, blowhole, cetaceous, Cetacea, fluke, whale, pod, aquatic mammal