cetus in English

noun
1
a large northern constellation (the Whale), said to represent the sea monster that threatened Andromeda. It contains the variable star Mira.

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1. Baten Kaitos is located in the constellation Cetus, the Whale

2. Fixed Star Baten Kaitos, Zeta Ceti, is a 3.9 magnitude yellowish star in the Whale, or Sea Monster, Cetus Constellation.

3. The PCR technique was patented by Kary Mullis and assigned to Cetus Corporation, where Mullis worked when he invented the technique in 1983.

4. Take a look at the story of how Perseus slew Medusa, the mother of Pegasus, and rescued Andromeda, the daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopeia, from the sea monster Cetus

5. The word Cetacean comes from the Latin word cetus, which was used to refer to any large sea creature, and the Greek word ketos, which was a sea monster or whale.

6. Cetacean is the collective noun used to describe all 90 species of whales, dolphins and porpoises. The word Cetacean has its origins in Latin (Cetus) referring to a large sea creature and Greek (Ketos) meaning whale or sea monster.

7. Andromeda is one of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd-century Greco-Roman astronomer Ptolemy, and one of the 88 modern constellations. Located north of the celestial equator, it is named for Andromeda, daughter of Cassiopeia, in the Greek myth, who was chained to a rock to be eaten by the sea monster Cetus.

8. In Greek mythology, Andromeda (/ æ n ˈ d r ɒ m ɪ d ə /; Greek: Ἀνδρομέδα, Androméda or Ἀνδρομέδη, Andromédē) is the daughter of the king of Aethiopia, Cepheus, and his wife, Cassiopeia.When Cassiopeia boasts that she is more beautiful than the Nereids, Poseidon sends the sea monster Cetus to ravage the coast of Aethiopia as divine punishment.