cetacean

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A marine mammal belonging to the infraorder Cetacea, including dolphins, porpoises, and whales, characterized by a streamlined body, one or two blowholes, tail flukes, and fin-like forelimbs without hind limbs.
    — The tour promised spiritual experiences with humpback whales and other cetaceans, but all we saw were seagulls and a dead sea otter.
形容词 adj.
  1. Pertaining to the zoologic infraorder Cetacea, or associated with species falling under that taxonomic hierarchy.
    — The poached blubber was definitely cetacean in origin, but the particular species could not be identified.
  2. Resembling or relating to large aquatic mammals. broadly,figuratively,sometimes
    — The obese woman, ungainly on land, moved with a kind of cetacean grace in the water.

词形变化

more cetacean comparative most cetacean superlative cetaceans plural

词源

词源 1
From translingual Cetacea, from Latin cētus (“whale”), + -an.
词源 2
From translingual Cetacea, from Latin cētus (“whale”), + -an.
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