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US
/bəˈɫin/
]
[ UK /bˈæliːn/ ]
[ UK /bˈæliːn/ ]
NOUN
- a horny material from the upper jaws of certain whales; used as the ribs of fans or as stays in corsets
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