whalebone whale

Questions about whalebone whale

What does whalebone whale mean?

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

What is another word for whalebone whale?

Close synonyms include baleen 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 whalebone whale a common word?

whalebone 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.