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Baleen Whale

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Noun

1. baleen whale, whalebone whale

whale with plates of whalebone along the upper jaw for filtering plankton from the water

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Baleen Whale

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noun
another name for whalebone whale

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Baleen Whale

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any of an order (Mysticeta) of whales with toothless jaws, baleen in the mouth, and a symmetrical skull, consisting of the gray whale, the right whales, and rorquals

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Baleen Whale

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n.
Any of several usually large cetaceans of the suborder Mysticeti, having two blowholes and whalebone plates instead of teeth, and including the humpback whale and the right whales. Also called mysticete, whalebone whale.

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