Baleen - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: baleenBalaelignoidea
A division of the Cetacea including the right whale and all other whales having the mouth fringed with baleen See Baleen...
Baleen
Plates or blades of ldquowhalebonerdquo from two to twelve feet long and sometimes a foot wide which in certain whales Balaelignoidea are attached side by side along the upper jaw and form a fringelike sieve by which the food is retained in the mouth...
Bowhead
The great Arctic or Greenland whale Balaeligna mysticetus See Baleen and Whale...
Gray whale
a rather large and swift baleen whale of the northern Pacific Eschrichtius robustus formerly Rhachianectes glaucus having short jaws and no dorsal fin called also grayback devilfish and hardhead It grows to a length of 50 feet sometimes 60 feet It was formerly taken in large numbers in the bays of California and is now rare It lives up to 50 or 60 years and adults weigh from 20 to 40 tons...
Mysticeti
A suborder including baleen whales right whales rorquals blue whales and humpbacks...
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