Vi fant 2 definisjoner av baleen whale på engelsk.
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| baleen whale - whale with plates of whalebone along the upper jaw for filtering plankton from the water | ||
| whalebone whale | ||
| whale any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body and breathing through a blowhole on the head | ||
| mysticeti, suborder mysticeti baleen whales: right whales; rorquals; blue whales; humpbacks | ||
| right whale large Arctic whalebone whale; allegedly the `right' whale to hunt because of its valuable whalebone and oil | ||
| balaena mysticetus, bowhead, bowhead whale, greenland whale large-mouthed Arctic whale | ||
| rorqual, razorback any of several baleen whales of the family Balaenopteridae having longitudinal grooves on the throat and a small pointed dorsal fin | ||
| balaenoptera musculus, blue whale, sulfur bottom largest mammal ever known; bluish-grey migratory whalebone whale mostly of southern hemisphere | ||
| humpback whale, megaptera novaeangliae, humpback large whalebone whale with long flippers noted for arching or humping its back as it dives | ||
