Cetaceans Definition & Meaning

Examples of cetacean in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The vaquita, also known as the California harbor porpoise, is the smallest cetacean and makes its home in the northern part of the Gulf of California. — Doug Johnson, Ars Technica, 6 May 2022 Assessing those impacts for the northernmost-ranging cetacean is important to formulating shipping, mining, and seismic guidelines and regulations as the region becomes a thoroughfare. — Marguerite Holloway, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2021 Michael Packard was diving off the coast of Provincetown, Massachusetts, Friday, when the capital cetacean caught him unawares. — Evan Simko-bednarski, CNN, 11 June 2021 Sperm whales are the only living cetacean that has a single blowhole asymmetrically situated on the left side of the crown of the head. — al, 23 Nov. 2020 On the show The Boys, a speedboat smashes into a cetacean and the humans emerge unscathed. — Rhett Allain, Wired, 14 Sep. 2020 As for the whale itself, experts are still unable to determine why the cetacean and its travel companions swam upriver in the first place. — Gabrielle Chung, PEOPLE.com, 14 Sep. 2020 In some places, official guardians watch over a resident cetacean. — Cathleen O'grady, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 July 2020 Initially, the cetacean will observe people from a distance, but if those people repeatedly try to make friends, the wild animal’s caution may fall away. — Cathleen O'grady, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 July 2020 See More

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