baleen

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İngilizce - Türkçe
balina kemiği
balina
balinanın ağızında oluşan elastiki bir madde

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baleen whales
Çubuklu balinalar
whalebone
balina kemiği
whalebone
balina çubuk
whalebone
korseye konulan balina
whalebone
balık dişi
İngilizce - İngilizce
a baleen whale
The plates in the mouth of the baleen whale, Mystacoceti, which it uses to trap its food; formerly used in corsetry
Fibrous plates growing from the roof of some species of whale that is used to filter food from the water Also, the type of whale that feeds in this manner, including gray and humpback whales The other major type of whale is toothed, including orcas
Comb-like plates that hang from the upper jaw of whales that feed on plankton
Plates or blades of "whalebone,"
a horny material from the upper jaws of certain whales; used as the ribs of fans or as stays in corsets
{i} whalebone
tough, horn-like material that grows from the upper jaw of certain whales, hanging down in parallel rows and used to filter food from ingested water Baleen consists of a tough protein material similar to human fingernails, and has hair-like bristles on the outer edge to trap food
from two to twelve feet long, and sometimes a foot wide, which in certain whales (Balænoidea) 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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baleen whale
Any of several large whales, of the suborder Mysticeti, that have plates of whalebone instead of teeth
baleen whales
plural form of baleen whale
baleen Whale
(Hayvan Bilim, Zooloji) A whale that has plates of whalebone in the mouth for straining plankton from the water. Baleen whales include the rorqual, humpback, right whale, and grey whale. Also called WHALEBONE WHALE
baleen whale
Any of several usually large whales of the suborder Mysticeti, such as the right whale and rorquals, having a symmetrical skull, two blowholes, and whalebone plates instead of teeth. Also called mysticete, whalebone whale. Any of about 13 species of cetaceans in the suborder Mysticeti. They are distinguished by a specialized feeding structure, the baleen, which strains plankton and small crustaceans from the water. It consists of two horny plates attached to the roof of the mouth. Each plate (as long as 12 ft, or 3.6 m, in the right whale) is composed of parallel slats with fringes that mat together to form a sieve. Other baleen whales are the blue, fin, gray, humpback, and sei whales and the rorqual. Baleen was once used for corset stays and is still used in some industrial brushes
baleen whale
whale with plates of whalebone along the upper jaw for filtering plankton from the water
baleen

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    ba·leen

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    bılin

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    whalebone

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    /bəˈlēn/ /bəˈliːn/

    Etimoloji

    [ b&-'lEn, 'ba-"lEn ] (noun.) 14th century. Middle English baleine whale, baleen, from Latin balaena whale; akin to Greek phallaina whale.