baleen

How To Use baleen In A Sentence

• In its mouth, this whale has unusually few of the baleen plates that such whales use to filter food from the water.
• When we saw its huge teeth, we knew it couldn't be a baleen whale.
• Baleen whales often appear in this region. Be careful!
• It yields the article commonly known as whalebone or baleen; and the oil specially known as "whale oil," an inferior article in commerce. Moby Dick, or, the whale
• ” In answer, it may be asked, why should not the early progenitors of the whales with baleen have possessed a mouth constructed something like the lamellated beak of a duck? VII. Miscellaneous Objections to the Theory of Natural Selection
• Different species have different density and coarseness of baleen due to their different food sources.
• The whales were commercially hunted for their oil and baleen beginning in the 1800s - the baleen being popular for making corsets, umbrellas, and fishing rods.
• The ‘whalebone’ whales have hundreds of baleen plates, up to twelve feet long, hanging down from their upper jaw.
• Their baleen plates have bristly inner edges that intertwine to form a strainer or filter.
• Many modern whale species use hair-like structures called baleen to filter tiny prey such as krill from seawater. National Geographic News