| NOUN | animal | baleen whale, whalebone whale | whale with plates of whalebone along the upper jaw for filtering plankton from the water |
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| Meaning | whale with plates of whalebone along the upper jaw for filtering plankton from the water. | |
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| Synonym | whalebone whale | |
| Member of | Mysticeti, suborder Mysticeti | baleen whales |
| Narrower | blue whale, sulfur bottom, Balaenoptera musculus | largest mammal ever known |
| bowhead, bowhead whale, Greenland whale, Balaena mysticetus | large-mouthed Arctic whale | |
| grey whale, gray whale, devilfish, Eschrichtius gibbosus, Eschrichtius robustus | medium-sized greyish-black whale of the northern Pacific | |
| humpback, humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae | large whalebone whale with long flippers noted for arching or humping its back as it dives | |
| right whale | large Arctic whalebone whale | |
| rorqual, razorback | Any of several baleen whales of the family Balaenopteridae having longitudinal grooves on the throat and a small pointed dorsal fin | |
| Broader | whale | Any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body and breathing through a blowhole on the head |
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