Crossword-Solution: MYSTICETE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Mysticete | n. | Any right whale, or whalebone whale. See Cetacea. |
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| species of whale | 3 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with MYSTICETE (5)
The cetacea have been divided into the _Denticete_, or Toothed Whales, and the _Mysticete_, or Whalebone Whales.
That was why the _Mysticete_ we had killed the day before did not start to drag the Scarboro toward the school.
There are two living suborders: (a) The Mysticete or whalebone whales, having no true teeth after birth, but with a series of plates of whalebone [see Baleen.] hanging down from the upper jaw on each side, thus making a strainer, through which they receive the small animals upon which they feed.
Note: The existing whales are divided into two groups: the toothed whales (Odontocete), including those that have teeth, as the cachalot, or sperm whale (see Sperm whale); and the baleen, or whalebone, whales (Mysticete), comprising those that are destitute of teeth, but have plates of baleen hanging from the upper jaw, as the right whales.
Eschricht and Rheinhardt, of Copenhagen, are convinced that it belonged to a species distinct from the Greenland whale; so that the name of ‘Mysticete’ has been applied to various whales.” [Illustration: THE NORTHERN WHALE (_Balina mysticetus_).] The sperm whale, says Maury, is a warm water animal; the _right_ whale delights in cold water.