BALEEN WHALE


Meaning of BALEEN WHALE in English

Function: noun

Date: 1874

: any of a suborder (Mysticeti) of usually large whales lacking teeth but having baleen which is used to filter chiefly small crustaceans (as krill) out of large quantities of seawater

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