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One of the Cetacea.

Of or pertaining to the Cetacea.

Resembling paper or parchment; of paper-like texture; papery.

That in which anything is contained; a vessel; a receiver or receptacle. [Obs.] Woodward.

The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock. Raymond. Contact level, a delicate level so pivoted as to tilt when two parts of a measuring apparatus come into contact with each other; -- used in precise determinations of lengths and in the accurate graduation of instruments.

Act of touching. [Obs.]

Having the qualities of chalk;abounding with chalk; chalky; as, cretaceous rocks and formations. See Chalk. Cretaceous acid, an old name for carbonic acid. -- Cretaceous formation (Geol.), the series of strata of various kinds, including beds of chalk, green sand, etc., formed in the Cretaceous period; -- called also…

Of, pertaining to, or designating, the period of time following the Jurassic and preceding the Eocene.

In a chalky manner; as chalk.

One of the classes of the arthropods, including lobsters and crabs; -- so called from the crustlike shell with which they are covered.

Of or pertaining to the Crustacea; crustaceous. -- n.

Pertaining to crustaceology.

One versed in crustaceology; a crustalogist.

That branch of Zoölogy which treats of the Crustacea; malacostracology; carcinology.

Belonging to the Crustacea; crustacean.

The state or quality of being crustaceous or having a crustlike shell.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a family of plants of which the cucumber, melon, and gourd are common examples.

To part; to separate or disunite; to disengage; -- the opposite of attach; as, to detach the coats of a bulbous root from each other; to detach a man from a leader or from a party.

That can be detached.

Separate; unconnected, or imperfectly connected; as, detached parcels. "Extensive and detached empire." Burke. Detached escapement. See Escapement.