κητώδης

A. cetaceous: τὰ κ. animals of the whale kind, Arist. Resp. 476b13, cf. HA 591b26; of coarse fishes (dogfish, etc.), Gal. 6.728, Xenocr. ap. Orib. 2.58.84, Alex.Trall. 1.15.

II. generally, monstrous, ἐλέφαντες καὶ ἄλλα ζῷα κ. D.S. 2.54.