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Cetacea

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cetacea

noun
an order of Eutheria 
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Cetacea 
"order of marine mammals containing whales," 1830, Mod.L., from L. cetus, from Gk. ketos "a whale." Hence cetology "the study of whales," first attested 1851 in "Moby Dick."
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