whalebone

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

The horny material from the fringed plates of the upper jaw of baleen whales that is used to filter plankton; once used as stays in corsets

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whalebone whalebones

From whale + bone.

baleen

whalebone whale whittle the whalebone

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