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whalebone

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whalebone: see whale whale, aquatic mammal of the order Cetacea, found in all oceans of the world. Members of this order vary greatly in size and include the largest animals that have ever lived. Cetaceans never leave the water, even to give birth.
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whalebone
a horny elastic material forming a series of numerous thin plates that hang from the upper jaw on either side of the palate in the toothless (whalebone) whales and strain plankton from water entering the mouth
whalebone [′wāl‚bōn]
(vertebrate zoology)
baleen


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He picked up a thin strip of whalebone and showed it to them.
Love of Life And Other Stories by London, Jack View in context
Every once and a while Peleg came hobbling out of his whalebone den, roaring at the men down the hatchways, roaring up to the riggers at the mast-head, and then concluded by roaring back into his wigwam.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
He crawled back over the huddled dogs, dusted the dry snow from his furs with the whalebone beater that Amoraq kept by the door, tapped the skin-lined roof of the house to shake off any icicles that might have fallen from the dome of snow above, and curled up on the bench.
The Second Jungle Book by Kipling, Rudyard View in context
 
 
 
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