Usually means: Toothed whales, including dolphins, porpoises.
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  1. Odontocete, odontocete: Merriam-Webster
  2. odontocete: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. odontocete: Collins English Dictionary
  4. odontocete: Wordnik
  5. odontocete: Wiktionary
  6. odontocete: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. Odontocete, odontocete: Dictionary.com
  8. Odontocete: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Odontocete: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. odontocete: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Odontocete: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. odontocete: FreeDictionary.org
  13. Odontocete: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Odontocete: Encyclopedia

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  2. Odontocete: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (odontocete)

▸ noun:  (zoology) Any member of the cetacean parvorder Odontoceti; a toothed whale.

Similar:
toothed whale, hyperoodontid, monodon, otodontid, cetotheriid, hyperoodon, whale, cetacean, cetology, octodont, more...

Opposite:
mysticete, baleen whale

Types:
sperm whale, killer whale, dolphin, porpoise, more...

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Similar:
toothed whale, hyperoodontid, monodon, otodontid, cetotheriid, hyperoodon, whale, cetacean, cetology, octodont, more...

Opposite:
mysticete, baleen whale

Types:
sperm whale, killer whale, dolphin, porpoise, more...



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