Baleen

(n.) Plates or blades of "whalebone," from two to twelve feet long, and sometimes a foot wide, which in certain whales (Balaenoidea) are attached side by side along the upper jaw, and form a fringelike sieve by which the food is retained in the mouth.

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• The Greenland whale is one of the most wonderful animals in the world, and the baleen, or whalebone, one of its greatest peculiarities. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• In these several respects they resemble the plates of baleen in the mouth of a whale. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.

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