cetaceous

1. 1.

   of or relating to whales and dolphins etc

   Synonymscetacean

Questions about cetaceous

What does cetaceous mean?

cetaceous means "of or relating to whales and dolphins etc".

How many syllables are in cetaceous?

cetaceous has 4 syllables and divides as ce-ta-ce-ous under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for cetaceous?

Close synonyms include cetacean. 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 cetaceous a common word?

cetaceous 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.