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cetus
/ˈsitəs/
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What does cetus mean?
proper noun
- A winter constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a whale. It includes the star Mira.
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And beneath the effulgent Antarctic skies I have boarded the Argo-Navis, and joined the chase against the starry Cetus far beyond the utmost stretch of Hydrus and the Flying Fish.
Bartholinus describes a large tooth for many years exhibited as the canine of a giant which proved to be nothing but a tooth of a spermaceti whale (Cetus dentatus), quite a common fish.