Baleen is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.
You can make 90 anagrams from letters in baleen (abeeln).
1275-1325; Middle English balene (Anglo-French baleine, beleine) Latin bal(l)ēna, variant of bal(l)aena whale Greek phál(l)aina whale; replacing Middle English balayn Middle French balaine wh
The baleen plates are all black with black or olive-black bristles.
These are known as the baleen plates and form the whalebone of commerce.
He has enormous teeth or tushes in the lower jaw, but has no baleen.
The number of baleen plates is about 330 on each side of the jaw.
The Toothed Whales are not furnished with baleen, but with teeth only.
(g) The baleen of whales also belongs to the epidermal exoskeleton.
This is precisely how the plates of baleen are disposed in the mouth of a Whale.
Logs and skulls of baleen whales had been set on end for walls, and mandibles and ribs of whales had been used as rafters.
This substance is improperly named, since it has none of the properties of bone; its correct name is baleen.
In these several respects they resemble the plates of baleen in the mouth of a whale.