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whalebone whale

n.

See baleen whale.

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whalebone whale

Noun

any whale with a double blowhole and strips of whalebone between the jaws instead of teeth, including the right whale and the blue whale

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whalebone whale - whale with plates of whalebone along the upper jaw for filtering plankton from the water baleen whale whale - any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body and breathing through a blowhole on the head Mysticeti, suborder Mysticeti - baleen whales: right whales; rorquals; blue whales; humpbacks right whale - large Arctic whalebone whale; allegedly the `right' whale to hunt because of its valuable whalebone and oil Balaena mysticetus, bowhead, bowhead whale, Greenland whale - large-mouthed Arctic whale rorqual, razorback - any of several baleen whales of the family Balaenopteridae having longitudinal grooves on the throat and a small pointed dorsal fin Balaenoptera musculus, blue whale, sulfur bottom - largest mammal ever known; bluish-grey migratory whalebone whale mostly of southern hemisphere humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae, humpback - large whalebone whale with long flippers noted for arching or humping its back as it dives devilfish, Eschrichtius gibbosus, Eschrichtius robustus, gray whale, grey whale - medium-sized greyish-black whale of the northern Pacific