baleen
baleen is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 34 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Plates or blades of "whalebone," 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.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- back
- bounce
- buoyancy
- buoyant
- caoutchouc
- distend
- ductile
- elastic
- elasticity
- extend
- flex
- flexibility
- flexible
- gum
- latex
- modulus
- natural
- plastic
- proportional
- recoil
- renitency
- renitent
- resilience
- resilient
- rubber
- spring
- springiness
- strain
- stress
- stretch
- synthetic
- tensile
- the
- whalebone
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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