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Word: Baleen
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
Middle English (also denoting a whale): from Old French baleine, from Latin balaena ‘whale’
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
bəˈliːn
Dialects: British English
Definition:
whalebone
Short Definition:whalebone
Examples:- the baleen plates of a Greenland right whale
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