baleen
/bəˈliːn/
词源链
- 英语English
baleen
词源说明
From Middle English baleyne, from Old French baleine (“whale, whalebone”), from Latin balaena (“whale”), from Ancient Greek φάλαινα (phálaina, “whale”).
释义
名词noun
- 1(physiology, uncountable) keratinous 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.
- 2(zoology, countable) A baleen whale (Mysticeti).
- 3obsoleteAny whale