Baleen

[bə'liːn]

解釋/意思:

(n.) Plates or blades of "whalebone," from two to twelve feet long, and sometimes a foot wide, which in certain whales (Balaenoidea) are attached side by side along the upper jaw, and form a fringelike sieve by which the food is retained in the mouth.

艾迪整理

同義詞及近義詞：

n. Whalebone.

乔斯林編輯

解釋/意思:

n. the whalebone of commerce.

琼整理