Definition of baleen in English:

baleen

noun bəˈliːnbəˈlin

mass noun

Whalebone.
鲸须
as modifier the baleen plates of a Greenland right whale
Example sentencesExamples
- Their baleen consists of 260-400 black, coarse, broad, overlapping plates hanging from each side of the upper jaw.
- Different species have different density and coarseness of baleen due to their different food sources.
- Mirrored projections face each other, pulsing like an underwater shot of baleen, white tissue-like net moving in and out.
- Their baleen plates have bristly inner edges that intertwine to form a strainer or filter.
- And the behemoths contain tremendous amounts of oil and baleen, once commercially lucrative products.
- To achieve greater power, massive ‘composite’ laths made from sinew, horn or baleen, and wood came into use; these were shorter and much stiffer than earlier wood laths.
- Most commonly, humpbacks are solitary diners, eating a diet of krill - a shrimp-like crustacean - and plankton, which they filter through hundreds of sieve-like plates called a baleen.
- Laboratory tests suggest that gray whale baleen, and possibly skin, may be resistant to damage by oil.
- They feed by straining small marine organisms out of the water using plates of baleen, a hornlike substance that forms filaments that hang down from the roof of the mouth.
- They are baleen whales; rather than hunt, they filter their prey, krill and small sea organisms, through the sieve-like baleen screen in their mouths.
- The ‘whalebone’ whales have hundreds of baleen plates, up to twelve feet long, hanging down from their upper jaw.
- In Greenland, Japan and Norway whale meat is sold in supermarkets, in Russia it has been sold to feed fur-bearers, and in Alaska baleen handicrafts from bowheads are sold to tourists.
- These whales are distinguished from the toothed whales by having baleen, or whalebone, as part of the mouth structure.
- One species of whales developed baleen, rows of keratin plates similar to hair that filter out food from the sea.
- The whales were commercially hunted for their oil and baleen beginning in the 1800s - the baleen being popular for making corsets, umbrellas, and fishing rods.
- The microstructure of these long filaments of papillary horn is very similar in its dermal-epidermal interdigitation to that of baleen in whales.
- To the left is an upside down picture of a beached right whale showing the long baleen plates that hang from the upper jaw.
- The right and left baleen rows are separated in the front of the mouth.
- Its front edge was bordered by a sort of storage box of stone, which contained a small vessel made of sewn baleen and wood.
- In its mouth, this whale has unusually few of the baleen plates that such whales use to filter food from the water.

Origin

Middle English (also denoting a whale): from Old French baleine, from Latin balaena 'whale'.

Rhymes

Aberdeen, Amin, aquamarine, bean, been, beguine, Benin, between, canteen, careen, Claudine, clean, contravene, convene, cuisine, dean, Dene, e'en, eighteen, fascine, fedayeen, fifteen, figurine, foreseen, fourteen, Francine, gean, gene, glean, gombeen, green, Greene, Halloween, intervene, Janine, Jean, Jeannine, Jolene, Kean, keen, Keene, Ladin, langoustine, latrine, lean, limousine, machine, Maclean, magazine, Malines, margarine, marine, Mascarene, Massine, Maxine, mean, Medellín, mesne, mien, Moline, moreen, mujahedin, Nadine, nankeen, Nazarene, Nene, nineteen, nougatine, obscene, palanquin, peen, poteen, preen, quean, Rabin, Racine, ramin, ravine, routine, Sabine, saltine, sardine, sarin, sateen, scene, screen, seen, serene, seventeen, shagreen, shebeen, sheen, sixteen, spleen, spring-clean, squireen, Steen, submarine, supervene, tambourine, tangerine, teen, terrine, thirteen, transmarine, treen, tureen, Tyrrhene, ultramarine, umpteen, velveteen, wean, ween, Wheen, yean

Definition of baleen in US English:

baleen

nounbəˈlēnbəˈlin

Whalebone.
鲸须
as modifier the baleen plates of a Greenland right whale
Example sentencesExamples
- Different species have different density and coarseness of baleen due to their different food sources.
- One species of whales developed baleen, rows of keratin plates similar to hair that filter out food from the sea.
- They feed by straining small marine organisms out of the water using plates of baleen, a hornlike substance that forms filaments that hang down from the roof of the mouth.
- To achieve greater power, massive ‘composite’ laths made from sinew, horn or baleen, and wood came into use; these were shorter and much stiffer than earlier wood laths.
- In its mouth, this whale has unusually few of the baleen plates that such whales use to filter food from the water.
- Their baleen plates have bristly inner edges that intertwine to form a strainer or filter.
- The ‘whalebone’ whales have hundreds of baleen plates, up to twelve feet long, hanging down from their upper jaw.
- The microstructure of these long filaments of papillary horn is very similar in its dermal-epidermal interdigitation to that of baleen in whales.
- The right and left baleen rows are separated in the front of the mouth.
- Laboratory tests suggest that gray whale baleen, and possibly skin, may be resistant to damage by oil.
- Mirrored projections face each other, pulsing like an underwater shot of baleen, white tissue-like net moving in and out.
- Its front edge was bordered by a sort of storage box of stone, which contained a small vessel made of sewn baleen and wood.
- Their baleen consists of 260-400 black, coarse, broad, overlapping plates hanging from each side of the upper jaw.
- In Greenland, Japan and Norway whale meat is sold in supermarkets, in Russia it has been sold to feed fur-bearers, and in Alaska baleen handicrafts from bowheads are sold to tourists.
- The whales were commercially hunted for their oil and baleen beginning in the 1800s - the baleen being popular for making corsets, umbrellas, and fishing rods.
- Most commonly, humpbacks are solitary diners, eating a diet of krill - a shrimp-like crustacean - and plankton, which they filter through hundreds of sieve-like plates called a baleen.
- And the behemoths contain tremendous amounts of oil and baleen, once commercially lucrative products.
- These whales are distinguished from the toothed whales by having baleen, or whalebone, as part of the mouth structure.
- To the left is an upside down picture of a beached right whale showing the long baleen plates that hang from the upper jaw.
- They are baleen whales; rather than hunt, they filter their prey, krill and small sea organisms, through the sieve-like baleen screen in their mouths.

Origin

Middle English (also denoting a whale): from Old French baleine, from Latin balaena ‘whale’.

单词	baleen
释义	Definition of baleen in English: baleen noun bəˈliːnbəˈlin mass noun Whalebone. 鲸须 as modifier the baleen plates of a Greenland right whale Example sentencesExamples Their baleen consists of 260-400 black, coarse, broad, overlapping plates hanging from each side of the upper jaw. Different species have different density and coarseness of baleen due to their different food sources. Mirrored projections face each other, pulsing like an underwater shot of baleen, white tissue-like net moving in and out. Their baleen plates have bristly inner edges that intertwine to form a strainer or filter. And the behemoths contain tremendous amounts of oil and baleen, once commercially lucrative products. To achieve greater power, massive ‘composite’ laths made from sinew, horn or baleen, and wood came into use; these were shorter and much stiffer than earlier wood laths. Most commonly, humpbacks are solitary diners, eating a diet of krill - a shrimp-like crustacean - and plankton, which they filter through hundreds of sieve-like plates called a baleen. Laboratory tests suggest that gray whale baleen, and possibly skin, may be resistant to damage by oil. They feed by straining small marine organisms out of the water using plates of baleen, a hornlike substance that forms filaments that hang down from the roof of the mouth. They are baleen whales; rather than hunt, they filter their prey, krill and small sea organisms, through the sieve-like baleen screen in their mouths. The ‘whalebone’ whales have hundreds of baleen plates, up to twelve feet long, hanging down from their upper jaw. In Greenland, Japan and Norway whale meat is sold in supermarkets, in Russia it has been sold to feed fur-bearers, and in Alaska baleen handicrafts from bowheads are sold to tourists. These whales are distinguished from the toothed whales by having baleen, or whalebone, as part of the mouth structure. One species of whales developed baleen, rows of keratin plates similar to hair that filter out food from the sea. The whales were commercially hunted for their oil and baleen beginning in the 1800s - the baleen being popular for making corsets, umbrellas, and fishing rods. The microstructure of these long filaments of papillary horn is very similar in its dermal-epidermal interdigitation to that of baleen in whales. To the left is an upside down picture of a beached right whale showing the long baleen plates that hang from the upper jaw. The right and left baleen rows are separated in the front of the mouth. Its front edge was bordered by a sort of storage box of stone, which contained a small vessel made of sewn baleen and wood. In its mouth, this whale has unusually few of the baleen plates that such whales use to filter food from the water. Origin Middle English (also denoting a whale): from Old French baleine, from Latin balaena 'whale'. Rhymes Aberdeen, Amin, aquamarine, bean, been, beguine, Benin, between, canteen, careen, Claudine, clean, contravene, convene, cuisine, dean, Dene, e'en, eighteen, fascine, fedayeen, fifteen, figurine, foreseen, fourteen, Francine, gean, gene, glean, gombeen, green, Greene, Halloween, intervene, Janine, Jean, Jeannine, Jolene, Kean, keen, Keene, Ladin, langoustine, latrine, lean, limousine, machine, Maclean, magazine, Malines, margarine, marine, Mascarene, Massine, Maxine, mean, Medellín, mesne, mien, Moline, moreen, mujahedin, Nadine, nankeen, Nazarene, Nene, nineteen, nougatine, obscene, palanquin, peen, poteen, preen, quean, Rabin, Racine, ramin, ravine, routine, Sabine, saltine, sardine, sarin, sateen, scene, screen, seen, serene, seventeen, shagreen, shebeen, sheen, sixteen, spleen, spring-clean, squireen, Steen, submarine, supervene, tambourine, tangerine, teen, terrine, thirteen, transmarine, treen, tureen, Tyrrhene, ultramarine, umpteen, velveteen, wean, ween, Wheen, yean Definition of baleen in US English: baleen nounbəˈlēnbəˈlin Whalebone. 鲸须 as modifier the baleen plates of a Greenland right whale Example sentencesExamples Different species have different density and coarseness of baleen due to their different food sources. One species of whales developed baleen, rows of keratin plates similar to hair that filter out food from the sea. They feed by straining small marine organisms out of the water using plates of baleen, a hornlike substance that forms filaments that hang down from the roof of the mouth. To achieve greater power, massive ‘composite’ laths made from sinew, horn or baleen, and wood came into use; these were shorter and much stiffer than earlier wood laths. In its mouth, this whale has unusually few of the baleen plates that such whales use to filter food from the water. Their baleen plates have bristly inner edges that intertwine to form a strainer or filter. The ‘whalebone’ whales have hundreds of baleen plates, up to twelve feet long, hanging down from their upper jaw. The microstructure of these long filaments of papillary horn is very similar in its dermal-epidermal interdigitation to that of baleen in whales. The right and left baleen rows are separated in the front of the mouth. Laboratory tests suggest that gray whale baleen, and possibly skin, may be resistant to damage by oil. Mirrored projections face each other, pulsing like an underwater shot of baleen, white tissue-like net moving in and out. Its front edge was bordered by a sort of storage box of stone, which contained a small vessel made of sewn baleen and wood. Their baleen consists of 260-400 black, coarse, broad, overlapping plates hanging from each side of the upper jaw. In Greenland, Japan and Norway whale meat is sold in supermarkets, in Russia it has been sold to feed fur-bearers, and in Alaska baleen handicrafts from bowheads are sold to tourists. The whales were commercially hunted for their oil and baleen beginning in the 1800s - the baleen being popular for making corsets, umbrellas, and fishing rods. Most commonly, humpbacks are solitary diners, eating a diet of krill - a shrimp-like crustacean - and plankton, which they filter through hundreds of sieve-like plates called a baleen. And the behemoths contain tremendous amounts of oil and baleen, once commercially lucrative products. These whales are distinguished from the toothed whales by having baleen, or whalebone, as part of the mouth structure. To the left is an upside down picture of a beached right whale showing the long baleen plates that hang from the upper jaw. They are baleen whales; rather than hunt, they filter their prey, krill and small sea organisms, through the sieve-like baleen screen in their mouths. Origin Middle English (also denoting a whale): from Old French baleine, from Latin balaena ‘whale’.
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