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baleen
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Meaning of
'baleen'
(Webster Dictionary)
1 .
Baleen
[
n.
]
- Plates or blades of "whalebone," from two to twelve feet long, and sometimes a foot wide, which in certain whales (Balaenoidea) are attached side by side along the upper jaw, and form a fringelike sieve by which the food is retained in the mouth.
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