Baleen Definition
bəlēn
noun
The horny, elastic plates that hang down in fringed, parallel columns from the upper jaw or palate of baleen whales and serve as a strainer that catches plankton while a whale is feeding; whalebone.
Webster's New World
(zoology, countable) A baleen whale.
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Other Word Forms of Baleen
Noun
Singular:
baleen
Plural:
baleensOrigin of Baleen
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From Old French baleine (“whale, whalebone”), from Latin balaena (“whale”), from Ancient Greek φάλαινα (phalaina, “whale”).
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