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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several usually large cetaceans of the suborder Mysticeti, having two blowholes and whalebone plates instead of teeth, and including the humpback whale and the right whales.
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- noun Any of several large whales, of the suborder
Mysticeti , that have plates ofwhalebone instead ofteeth
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- noun whale with plates of whalebone along the upper jaw for filtering plankton from the water
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