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- [buh-leen]
- /bəˈlin/
- /bəˈliːn/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [buh-leen]
- /bəˈlin/
Definitions of baleen word
- noun baleen whalebone 3
- noun baleen the horny, elastic plates that hang down in fringed, parallel columns from the upper jaw or palate of baleen whales and serve as a strainer that catches plankton while a whale is feeding 3
- noun baleen whalebone (def 1). 1
- noun baleen Whalebone. 1
- noun baleen (Uncountable Noun) (physiology) The bony material that makes up the plates in the mouth of the baleen whale, Mysticeti, which it uses to trap its food; formerly used in corsetry. 0
- noun baleen (Countable Noun) (zoology) a baleen whale. 0
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Origin of baleen
First appearance:
before 1275 One of the 13% oldest English words
1275-1325; Middle English balene (< Anglo-French baleine, beleine) < Latin bal(l)ēna, variant of bal(l)aena whale < an unidentified language, also the source of Greek phál(l)aina whale; replacing Middle English balayn < Middle French balaine whale(bone) < Latin, as above
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Parts of speech for Baleen
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baleen popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 80% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
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This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for baleen
noun baleen
- mammal — any vertebrate of the class Mammalia, having the body more or less covered with hair, nourishing the young with milk from the mammary glands, and, with the exception of the egg-laying monotremes, giving birth to live young.
- whopper — WarGames
- cetacean — Cetaceans are animals such as whales, dolphins, and porpoises.
- porpoise — any of several small, gregarious cetaceans of the genus Phocoena, usually blackish above and paler beneath, and having a blunt, rounded snout, especially the common porpoise, P. phocoena, of both the North Atlantic and Pacific.
- grampus — a cetacean, Grampus griseus, of the dolphin family, widely distributed in northern seas.
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