For the Love of Words
My Own Little Dictionary of Words
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Baleen
Baleen-n
a horny substance that grows as fringed plates from the upper jaws of certain whales, acting to strain food, especially small crustaceans, from the water.
Also called whalebone
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