MYSTICETI

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Mysticeti mean? 

• MYSTICETI (noun)
  The noun MYSTICETI has 1 sense:

1. baleen whales: right whales; rorquals; blue whales; humpbacks

  Familiarity information: MYSTICETI used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MYSTICETI (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Baleen whales: right whales; rorquals; blue whales; humpbacks

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Mysticeti; suborder Mysticeti

Hypernyms ("Mysticeti" is a kind of...):

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "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 ("Mysticeti" is a member of...):

Cetacea; order Cetacea (an order of Eutheria)