Whalebone

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The elastic, horny material forming the fringed plates that hang from the upper jaw of baleen whales and strain plankton from the water. Also called baleen.
  • n. An object made of this material.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The horny material from the fringed plates of the upper jaw of baleen whales that are used to filter plankton; once used as stays in corsets
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A firm, elastic substance resembling horn, taken from the upper jaw of the right whale; baleen. It is used as a stiffening in stays, fans, screens, and for various other purposes. See baleen.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The elastic horny substance which grows in place of teeth in the upper jaw of whales of the family Balænidæ (hence called whalebone or bone whales), forming a series of thin parallel plates from a few inches to several feet long; baleen (which see).
  • n. Something made of whalebone or baleen; a piece of whalebone prepared for some regular use: as, the whalebones of a corset.
  • n. Specifically
  • n. In the middle ages, ivory from the narwhal, walrus, or other sea-creature, or supposed to be from such a source. See whale's bone, under whale, n.
  • Made of or containing whalebone.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a horny material from the upper jaws of certain whales; used as the ribs of fans or as stays in corsets
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    horn   
    Cross Reference
    whalebone whale   
    Variant
    baleen   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    baleen   
    Same Context
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