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SUBORDER MYSTICETI
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Dictionary entry overview: What does suborder Mysticeti mean?
• SUBORDER MYSTICETI (noun)
The noun SUBORDER MYSTICETI has 1 sense:
1. baleen whales: right whales; rorquals; blue whales; humpbacks
Familiarity information: SUBORDER MYSTICETI used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Baleen whales: right whales; rorquals; blue whales; humpbacks
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Mysticeti; suborder Mysticeti
Hypernyms ("suborder Mysticeti" is a kind of...):
animal order (the order of animals)
Meronyms (members of "suborder Mysticeti"):
baleen whale; whalebone whale (whale with plates of whalebone along the upper jaw for filtering plankton from the water)
Balaenidae; family Balaenidae (right whales)
Balaenopteridae; family Balaenopteridae (rorquals; blue whales)
Eschrichtiidae; family Eschrichtiidae (comprising only the grey whales)
Holonyms ("suborder Mysticeti" is a member of...):
Cetacea; order Cetacea (an order of Eutheria)
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