cetacean

1. 1.

   of or relating to whales and dolphins etc

   Synonymscetaceous

Other forms of cetacean

plural

cetaceans·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cetacean

What does cetacean mean?

cetacean means "large aquatic carnivorous mammal with fin-like forelimbs no hind limbs, including: whales; dolphins; porpoises; narwhals". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cetacean?

cetacean has 3 syllables: ce-ta-cean. The stress falls on "ta". In IPA it is /sɪˈteɪʃən/.

What is another word for cetacean?

Close synonyms include cetacean mammal, blower, cetaceous. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cetacean a common word?

cetacean is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with cetacean?

89 words rhyme with cetacean. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.