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balænopteridæ

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from The Century Dictionary.

  • The furrowed whalebone whales; a family of mysticete cetaceans, typified by the genus Balænoptera, having the throat plicated, the dorsal fin developed, the cervical vertebræ free or incompletely ankylosed, the flippers with only 4 digits, and the baleen short and coarse.

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