mysticeti in English

noun
1
a division of the whales that comprises the baleen whales.
Modern whales may be divided into two subgroups: the Odontoceti (toothed whales) and the Mysticeti (baleen whales).

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1. Baleen Baleen is a sieve-like device that Mysticeti (Baleen whales) use to obtain nourishment (krill, plankton, and other small organisms)

2. Em termos cladísticos, Cetacea é um clado e costuma ser considerado um grupo-total que inclui as parvordens Odontoceti e Mysticeti, além de todos os animais extintos mais próximos dessas parvordens que de qualquer outro animal vivo.Por sua vez, Odontoceti e Mysticeti formam o clado Neoceti, o grupo-coroa de Cetacea

3. [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.]

4. 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.