Baleen

[Ba*leen·]

A horny material from the upper jaws of certain whales; used as the ribs of fans or as stays in corsets

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Plates or blades of "whalebone," from two to twelve feet long, and sometimes a foot wide, which in certain whales (Bal'91noidea) are attached side by side along the upper jaw, and form a fringelike sieve by which the food is retained in the mouth.

Noun
a horny material from the upper jaws of certain whales; used as the ribs of fans or as stays in corsets

n.
Plates or blades of "whalebone," from two to twelve feet long, and sometimes a foot wide, which in certain whales (Balaenoidea) are attached side by side along the upper jaw, and form a fringelike sieve by which the food is retained in the mouth.

Baleen

Ba*leen" , n. [F. baleine whale and whalibone, L. balaena a whale; cf. Gr. . ] (Zo'94l. & Com.) Plates or blades of "whalebone," from two to twelve feet long, and sometimes a foot wide, which in certain whales (Bal'91noidea) are attached side by side along the upper jaw, and form a fringelike sieve by which the food is retained in the mouth.

Plates or blades of "whalebone," from two to twelve feet long, and sometimes a foot wide, which in certain whales (Bal'91noidea) are attached side by side along the upper jaw, and form a fringelike sieve by which the food is retained in the mouth.

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