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 oftoothed 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
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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
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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
yarb commented on the word odontocete
A toothed cetacean.
November 10, 2007