baleen whale in English

noun
1
a whale that has plates of whalebone in the mouth for straining plankton from the water. Baleen whales include the rorquals, humpback, right whales, and gray whale.
Its calls do not match those of any known species, although they are clearly those of a baleen whale , a group that includes blue, fin and humpback whales.
noun
    whalebone whale

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1. The humpback whale is a species of Baleen whale.

2. Bowhead definition, a baleen whale, Balaena mysticetus, of northern seas, having an enormous head and mouth: an endangered species

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4. [14th–17th c.] (physiology, uncountable) The bony material that makes up the plates in the mouth of the Baleen whale, Mysticeti, which it uses to trap its food; formerly used in corsetry [from 14th c.]

5. Baleen whale definition is - any of a suborder (Mysticeti) of usually large whales typically of colder waters that lack teeth but have Baleen plates in the upper jaw which are used to filter chiefly small crustaceans (such as krill) out of large quantities of seawater.

6. Bowhead whale definition is - a very large baleen whale (Balaena mysticetus of the family Balaenidae) of cold waters of the northern hemisphere that is related to the right whales, may reach a length of 45 to 60 feet (13.5 to 18 meters), and has an extremely large head with an arched lower jaw.