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Noun- A branch of zoology dealing with the whales.

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  • Yes, yes, the cetology (and faux cetology) can be a slog, no doubt.
  • As far as the cetology section goes, a little taxonomy never hurt anyone.
  • My object here is simply to project the draught of a systematization of cetology.
  • Nevertheless, though of real knowledge there be little, yet of books there are a plenty; and so in some small degree, with cetology, or the science of whales.
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