English noun: baleen whale |
1. | baleen whale (animal) whale with plates of whalebone along the upper jaw for filtering plankton from the water |
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| Synonyms | whalebone whale |
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| Broader (hypernym) | whale |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | Balaena mysticetus, Balaenoptera musculus, blue whale, bowhead, bowhead whale, devilfish, Eschrichtius gibbosus, Eschrichtius robustus, gray whale, Greenland whale, grey whale, humpback, humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae, razorback, right whale, rorqual, sulfur bottom |
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| Member meronym | Mysticeti, suborder Mysticeti |
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