a. and sb. Zool. [f. prec. + -AN (see -ACEAN), forming a sing. to prec.]

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  A.  adj. Of or pertaining to the Cetacea.

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1850.  Dana, Geol., App. i. 722. Fragments of other cetacean bones.

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1851.  D. Wilson, Preh. Ann. (1863), I. ii. 49. The cetacean remains lay above the highest tide level.

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  B.  An animal belonging to the Cetacea (to which word this supplies a singular).

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1836.  Todd, Cycl. Anat., I. 562/2. The horizontal position of the tail-fin at once distinguishes the cetacean from the fish.

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