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baleen whale
[ buh-leen hweyl, weyl ]
noun
- any whale of the suborder Mysticeti, having plates of baleen on the sides of the upper jaw for filtering plankton from the water.
baleen whale
noun
- another name for whalebone whale
baleen whale
- Any of several usually large whales of the suborder Mysticeti, having a symmetrical skull with two blowholes and plates of baleen instead of teeth. Baleen whales include the humpback, blue, fin, minke, and right whales, and the rorquals.
- Compare toothed whale
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of baleen whale1
Example Sentences
Filter feeders are everywhere in the animal world, from tiny crustaceans and certain types of coral and krill, to various molluscs, barnacles, and even massive basking sharks and baleen whales.
North Pacific right whales are baleen whales, which feed by straining huge volumes of ocean water through their comb-like baleen plates that trap copepods and other zooplankton.
While previous studies have linked caller identity to acoustic tag data, this is the first robust method for studying large baleen whales, like humpback whales.
Whales are best known for their massive size and the biggest among them are the baleen whales.
To communicate across vast distances and find each other, baleen whales depend critically on the production of sounds that travels far in murky and dark oceans.
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