whalebone

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Noun

whalebone

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

Synonyms

• baleen

Translations

• French: fanon
• German: Fischbein
• Italian: fanone
• Russian: кито́вый ус
• Spanish: ballena

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