cetacea
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.65 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Whale-like mammals.
Example Sentences
- "Of cetacea, or whale-like mammals, sixty-five; ruminantia, or cud-chewers, one hundred and seventy-seven; pachydermata, or thick-skinned mammals, such as the horse, hog, and elephant, forty-one; edentata, like the sloth and ant-eater, thirty-five; rodentia, or gnawers, such as the rat, squirrel, and beaver, six hundred and seventeen; carnivora, or flesh-eaters, four hundred and forty-six; cheiroptera, or bats, three hundred and twenty-eight; quadrumana, or monkeys, two hundred and twenty-one; and marsupialia, or pouched mammals, like the opossum and kangaroo, one hundred and thirty-seven."
- "But here we give no such extracts, but content ourselves with four short skits, having the cetacea for their subject."
- "--Acalephae[1] are plentiful, so much so, indeed, that they occasionally tempt the larger cetacea into the Gulf of Manaar."
- "PORPOISES AT MORETON BAY. Among the marine animals of Moreton Bay are two cetacea of great interest."