baleen whale

Questions about baleen whale

What does baleen whale mean?

baleen whale means "whale with plates of whalebone along the upper jaw for filtering plankton from the water".

What is another word for baleen whale?

Close synonyms include whalebone whale. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is baleen whale a common word?

baleen whale is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.