Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to cetology.

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

  • adjective Of or pertaining to cetology.

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to cetology.

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Examples

  • Thursday (7/15/04) 8:12am - ... wherein Peter has an hour or two of cetological fun. (a couple vague spoilers)

    Peter Rogers's Blog 2004

  • But I now leave my cetological System standing thus unfinished, even as the great Cathedral of Cologne was left, with the cranes still standing upon the top of the uncompleted tower.

    Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

  • But I now leave my cetological System standing thus unfinished, even as the great Cathedral of Cologne was left, with the crane still standing upon the top of the uncompleted tower.

    Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855

  • But I now leave my cetological System standing thus unfinished, even as the great Cathedral of Cologne was left, with the cranes still standing upon the top of the uncompleted tower.

    Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855

  • But I now leave my cetological System standing thus unfinished, even as the great Cathedral of Cologne was left, with the crane still standing upon the top of the uncompleted tower.

    Moby-Dick, or, The Whale 1851

  • Okay, I actually like Moby-Dick in all it's unwieldy glory, including all the nautical and cetological stuff.

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

  • Okay, I actually like Moby-Dick in all it's unwieldy glory, including all the nautical and cetological stuff.

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

  • There are longueurs, but even in the midst of tedious cetological lore, one comes across such disturbing passages as that in which the Pequod's sailors squeeze and squeeze and squeeze handfuls of white spermacetti.

    The Sheila Variations 2009

  • Okay, I actually like Moby-Dick in all it's unwieldy glory, including all the nautical and cetological stuff.

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

  • Okay, I actually like Moby-Dick in all it's unwieldy glory, including all the nautical and cetological stuff.

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

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