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whale·bone
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bone
Your bones are the hard parts inside your body which together form your skeleton. -
scrimshaw
a carved or engraved article, especially of whale ivory, whalebone, walrus tusks, or the like, made by whalers as a leisure occupation. -
whalebone whale
any whale of the suborder Mysticeti, having plates of whalebone on the sides of the upper jaw for filtering plankton from the water. -
baleen
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baleen whale
any of an order (Mysticeta) of whales with toothless jaws, baleen in the mouth, and a symmetrical skull, consisting of the gray whale, the right whales, and rorquals -
bowhead
a large-mouthed arctic whale, Balaena mysticetus, that has become rare through overfishing but is now a protected species