Crossword-Solution: BALEEN
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| 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. |
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| BALEEN | anagram | ENABLE |
We have 24 clues for the answer “BALEEN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Kind of whale with two blowholes | 1 answer |
| whale bone | 1 answer |
| __ whale (Arctic swimmer) | 1 answer |
| Whale's food-filtering system | 1 answer |
| Traditional Alaskan basket material | 1 answer |
| Toothless whale | 1 answer |
| Tooth, whalewise | 1 answer |
| Substitute for teeth in some whales | 1 answer |
| Substance used by whales as a feeding filter | 1 answer |
| Keratinous substance on some marine mammals | 1 answer |
| Horny plate in a whale's mouth. | 1 answer |
| Corset material, once | 1 answer |
| Cetacean bristles | 1 answer |
| Bristly filter feeding system in whales | 1 answer |
| Scrimshaw material | 2 answers |
| GREY whale | 2 answers |
| Corset-stiffening material | 2 answers |
| Whale-bone | 3 answers |
| Whale variety | 6 answers |
| Kind of whale | 7 answers |
| CORSET MATERIAL | 10 answers |
| bone whale | 11 answers |
| Corset stiffener | 11 answers |
| Corset part | 11 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with BALEEN (5)
The Greenland whale is one of the most wonderful animals in the world, and the baleen, or whalebone, one of its greatest peculiarities.
The baleen consists of a row, on each side of the upper jaw, of about 300 plates or laminæ, which stand close together transversely to the longer axis of the mouth.
But how to obtain the beginning of such useful development?” In answer, it may be asked, why should not the early progenitors of the whales with baleen have possessed a mouth constructed something like the lamellated beak of a duck? Ducks, like whales, subsist by sifting the mud and water; and the family has sometimes been called _Criblatores_, or sifters.
The entire head of the shoveller, though incomparably less bulky, is about one-eighteenth of the length of the head of a moderately large Balænoptera rostrata, in which species the baleen is only nine inches long; so that if we were to make the head of the shoveller as long as that of the Balænoptera, the lamellæ would be six inches in length, that is, two-thirds of the length of the baleen in this species of whale.
The lower mandible of the shoveller-duck is furnished with lamellæ of equal length with these above, but finer; and in being thus furnished it differs conspicuously from the lower jaw of a whale, which is destitute of baleen.
Quotes with BALEEN (3)
This is Kester Baleen and Ajex Cristo,' Jared introduced. 'One born without common sense and another with too much intelligence.''Yeah, and what about you Dernell?' Kester retorted back. 'Born with a dry sense of humour.
American whale oil lit the world. It was used in the production of soap, textiles, leather, paints, and varnishes, and it lubricated the tools and machines that drove the Industrial Revolution. The baleen cut from the mouths of whales shaped the course of feminine fashion by putting the hoop in hooped skirts and giving form to stomachtighteningand chest-crushing corsets. Spermaceti, the waxy substance from the heads of sperm whales, produced the brightest- and cleanest-burnin…
Standing there small among the boxes of Kandy Kakes that rose like brownish cartoon cliffs around him, he resembled the videos I'd seen of sea lions floating angelically among the kelp, black bodies filmed from below, their shapes cut out in bright sunlight, bodies mistakable for those of a human being. I felt the memory of a shadowy arm around me, a watcher again, sitting there on the couch with my boyfriend, watching the animals become prey. Somewhere there were giant whale…
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Appears in: Crossroads, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 16 times in crossword archives (1953–2025).