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Definition of the day : « baleen »
- As in whale : noun cetacean mammal
- 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