Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Toothed, as a cetacean; having teeth instead of baleen: opposed to mysticete.
  • noun An odontocete cetacean.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun plural (Zoöl.) A subdivision of Cetacea, including the sperm whale, dolphins, etc.; the toothed whales.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun zoology Any member of the cetacean suborder Odontoceti of toothed whales.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From New Latin Odontocētī, suborder name : Greek odonto-, odonto- + Greek kētos, sea monster, whale.]

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Examples

  • It is likely, they conclude, that the ability to produce double pulses is shared by other whales in the same sub-order known as odontocete cetaceans - whales with teeth - such as killer, pilot and sperm whales.

    News24 2009

  • Andrewsiphius had previously been regarded as an odontocete on the basis of its elongate and compressed lower jaw (Sahni & Mishra 1975).

    Archive 2006-02-01 Darren Naish 2006

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  • A toothed cetacean.

    November 10, 2007