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mystacocete
mystacocete Zool. (ˈmɪstəkəʊsiːt) [ad. mod.L. Mystacocēt-us, f. Gr. µυστακ(ο)-, µύσταξ upper lip, moustache + κῆτος whale. (App. formed as a correction of the unmeaning mysticētus mysticete1.)] A cetacean of the sub-order Mystacoceti or whale-bone whales (opposed to Odontoceti).1883 W. H. Flower in ...
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mysticete
▪ I. mysticete1 (ˈmɪstɪsiːt) Formerly also in L. form. [ad. mod.L. mysticētus, a. Gr. µυστίκητος (in old edd. of Aristotle Hist. Anim. iii. xii, where mod. edd. read ὁ µῦς τὸ κῆτος, ‘the {oqq}mouse{cqq} (i.e. the whale so called)’). The identity of the animal referred to by Aristotle has not been de...
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