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Synonyms for baleen

Grammar : Noun
Spell : buh-leen
Phonetic Transcription : bəˈlin

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Définition of baleen

Origin :
  • early 14c., "whalebone," from Old French balaine (12c.) "whale, whalebone," from Latin ballaena, from Greek phallaina "whale" (apparently related to phallos "swollen penis," probably because of a whale's shape), from PIE root *bhel- (2) "to blow, inflate, swell" (see bole). Klein writes that the Greek to Latin transition was "through the medium of the Illyrian language, a fact which explains the transition of Gk. -ph- into Latin -b- (instead of -p-)."
  • As in whale : noun cetacean mammal
Example sentences :
  • In these several respects they resemble the plates of baleen in the mouth of a whale.
  • Extract from : « On the Origin of Species » by Charles Darwin
  • He has enormous teeth or tushes in the lower jaw, but has no baleen.
  • Extract from : « Ranching, Sport and Travel » by Thomas Carson
  • These are known as the baleen plates and form the whalebone of commerce.
  • Extract from : « Birds and Nature Vol. 11 No. 1 [January 1902] » by Various
  • (g) The baleen of whales also belongs to the epidermal exoskeleton.
  • Extract from : « The Vertebrate Skeleton » by Sidney H. Reynolds
  • The Toothed Whales are not furnished with baleen, but with teeth only.
  • Extract from : « The Cambridge Natural History, Vol X., Mammalia » by Frank Evers Beddard
  • The number of baleen plates is about 330 on each side of the jaw.
  • Extract from : « The Cambridge Natural History, Vol X., Mammalia » by Frank Evers Beddard
  • This is precisely how the plates of baleen are disposed in the mouth of a Whale.
  • Extract from : « The Cambridge Natural History, Vol X., Mammalia » by Frank Evers Beddard
  • This substance is improperly named, since it has none of the properties of bone; its correct name is baleen.
  • Extract from : « The Queer, the Quaint and the Quizzical » by Frank H. Stauffer
  • The baleen plates are all black with black or olive-black bristles.
  • Extract from : « Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises of the Western North Atlantic » by Stephen Leatherwood
  • Logs and skulls of baleen whales had been set on end for walls, and mandibles and ribs of whales had been used as rafters.
  • Extract from : « Birds Found on the Arctic Slope of Northern Alaska » by James W. Bee
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