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baleen 音标拼音: [bəl'in] n. 鲸须 鲸须 baleen n 1: a horny material from the upper jaws of certain whales; used as the ribs of fans or as stays in corsets [synonym: {whalebone}, {baleen}] Baleen \Ba*leen"\ (b[.a]*l[=e]n"), n. [F. baleine whale and whalebone, L. balaena a whale; cf. Gr. fa`laina. ] (Zool. & Com.) Plates or blades of "whalebone," from two to twelve feet long, and sometimes a foot wide, which in certain whales ({Bal[ae]noidea}) are attached side by side along the upper jaw, and form a fringelike sieve by which the food is retained in the mouth. [1913 Webster]
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