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Baleen n. : Plates or blades of "whalebone," from two to twelve feet long, and sometimes a foot wide, which in certain whales (Balaenoidea) 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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Defination from the web:
baleen plates in the upper jaw – flat, flexible plates with frayed edges, arranged in ... The blue whale, the largest animal alive and probably the largest animal to ever have lived, is a baleen whale. ... 

synonyms
  (noun) whalebone
  (noun) horn


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