baleen /noun/ हक्रले का मूंछ; कुछ ह्वेल मछलियों के तालू की लंबी और पतली फलकों में पाया जाने वाला श्रृंगमय लचीला द
English Dictionary:
1. Baleen [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.