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whalebone

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whale·bone  (hwlbn, wl-)
n.
1. 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.
2. An object made of this material.
whalebone
Noun
a thin strip of a horny material that hangs from the upper jaw of some whales, formerly used for stiffening corsets
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Noun1.whalebonewhalebone - a horny material from the upper jaws of certain whales; used as the ribs of fans or as stays in corsets
baleen
horn - the material (mostly keratin) that covers the horns of ungulates and forms hooves and claws and nails
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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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