baleen

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The baleen is then cut out, and the carcase abandoned to the sharks, killer whales, and sea birds The baleen whales are not found in the intertropical seas.

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  1. noun See whalebone.

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  • It has no teeth, by the way, just those baleen-like structures the D'/fy use for chewing food. —  FSFDec2003
  • By studying sections of the bristles with an electron microscope, Luis M. Chiappe (New York's American Museum of Natural History) and A. Chinsamy (South African Museum) found that these bristles were not made of material derived from the epidermis, like whale baleen or the bills of modern filter-feeding birds. —  F ;SF; - vol 091 issue 01 - July 1996
  • They have a plate of keratin, or baleen, attached to the upper jaw, which works like a strainer to catch their food. —  JuneauEmpire.com
  • Whale oil for lamps and baleen, which had multiple uses, were much in demand at the time on both sides of the Atlantic. —  SouthCoastToday.com Latest Headlines
  • The tail-powered swimming of modern baleen (Mysticeti) and toothed (Odontoceti) whales evolved from the hip wiggling style of the ancient whale Georgiacetus. —  Scientific Blogging
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  1. Middle English balene, from Old French baleine, from Latin balaena, whale, from Greek phalaina; see bhel-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English balene, baleyne, a whale, from Old French balene, French baleine, from Latin balæna, a whale: see Balæna.
 

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