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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Toothed, as a cetacean; having teeth instead of baleen: opposed to mysticete.
  2. n. An odontocete cetacean.

Wiktionary

  1. n. zoology Any member of the cetacean suborder Odontoceti of toothed whales.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Zoöl.) A subdivision of Cetacea, including the sperm whale, dolphins, etc.; the toothed whales.

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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

  • “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

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  1. odontocetous
  2. odontocete
  3. Odontoceti
  1. rhynchocetus
  2. berardius
  3. delphinapterus
  1. delphinidæ
  2. delphinoidea
  3. globicephalus
  1. inia
  2. monodon
  3. orca
  1. phocæna
  2. platanistidæ
  3. pontoporia
  1. ziphius

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