Usually means: Filter-feeding whales with keratin plates.
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  1. baleen whale: Merriam-Webster
  2. baleen whale: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. baleen whale: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. baleen whale: Collins English Dictionary
  5. baleen whale: Vocabulary.com
  6. baleen whale: Wiktionary
  7. baleen whale: Dictionary.com
  8. Baleen whale: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. baleen whale: Rhymezone
  10. baleen whale: FreeDictionary.org
  11. baleen whale: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. baleen whale: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. baleen whale: Merriam-Webster

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  1. baleen whale: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (baleen whale)

▸ noun:  Any of several large whales, of the parvorder Mysticeti, that have plates of whalebone (baleen) instead of teeth.

Similar:
whalebone whale, baleen, balenopterid, toothless whale, balaenopteroid, whalebone, bowhead, great whale, humpback whale, finback, more...

Opposite:
toothed whale, odontocete

Types:
humpback, blue, fin, right, bowhead, gray, minke, more...

Adjectives:
brit, cetacean, northern, calver, smolt, lythe, anadromous, salmon, cod, leap, sprag

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Similar:
whalebone whale, baleen, balenopterid, toothless whale, balaenopteroid, whalebone, bowhead, great whale, humpback whale, finback, more...

Opposite:
toothed whale, odontocete

Types:
humpback, blue, fin, right, bowhead, gray, minke, more...

Adjectives:
brit, cetacean, northern, calver, smolt, lythe, anadromous, salmon, cod, leap, sprag



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