Definitions for baleens

baleens ba·leen

Spelling: [buh-leen]
IPA: /bəˈlin/

Baleens is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 190 anagrams from letters in baleens (abeelns).

Definitions for baleens

noun

  1. whalebone (def 1).

Origin of baleens

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

Examples for baleens

This substance is improperly named, since it has none of the properties of bone; its correct name is baleen.

Logs and skulls of baleen whales had been set on end for walls, and mandibles and ribs of whales had been used as rafters.

These are known as the baleen plates and form the whalebone of commerce.

In these several respects they resemble the plates of baleen in the mouth of a whale.

He has enormous teeth or tushes in the lower jaw, but has no baleen.

The baleen plates are all black with black or olive-black bristles.

(g) The baleen of whales also belongs to the epidermal exoskeleton.

The Toothed Whales are not furnished with baleen, but with teeth only.

This is precisely how the plates of baleen are disposed in the mouth of a Whale.

The number of baleen plates is about 330 on each side of the jaw.

Word Value for baleens
Scrable

8

Words with friends

11

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