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Meanings of baleen in English
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Examples for "whalebone"
Examples for "whalebone"
1
The whalebone Divinity in the Home Town passed out of his Life.
2
The stretchers were of cane, and the ribs of cane or whalebone.
3
This produces an elastic fiber intermediate in stiffness between twine and whalebone.
4
So I made her a tail of whalebone and India-rubber and yarn.
5
She handed Little a good-sized affair of lace and silk and whalebone.
Usage of baleen in English
1
There was just time to run to the rescue of the baleen whales.
2
His baleen was yellowed and corrupt, honeycombed like a Chinese puzzle.
3
He has enormous teeth or tushes in the lower jaw, but has no baleen.
4
Whalebone whips are made from single pieces of baleen seven or eight feet long.
5
It's made of the baleen, mixed with sintered yak wool.
6
Because I've seen big baleen whales, sir, whales measuring up to 100 feet long!
7
The battle between sperm whales and baleen whales had already begun when the Nautilus arrived.
8
The cachelot has no baleen but it furnishes spermaceti.
9
I was right to claim that baleen whales have enough natural enemies without counting man.
10
I have a sudden image of an open-mouthed blue whale pulling plankton through its baleen.
11
The Byrde's whale fills a unique ecological niche as the Gulf's only resident baleen whale.
12
Listen, I'm not going to sit here and tell you that baleen whales are big.
13
The ivory was stained and scaling, its edges jagged with the stumps of baleen combs.
14
They are hunting a great baleen whale, one of the largest animals that has ever lived.
15
And I know that has been used before -baleen or something, which is pretty interesting.
16
A species of baleen whale, Bryde's whales are found in the warm waters of several oceans.
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Baleen through the time