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baleen whale - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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A baleen whale surfacing.
The blue whale, the world's biggest animal, is a baleen whale.

baleen whale (plural baleen whales)

  1. Any of several large whales, of the parvorder Mysticeti, that have plates of whalebone (baleen) instead of teeth.

whale of the Mysticeti parvorder