(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) The abnormal mobility at the fracture site probably caused irregular baleen stowage within the oral cavity, leading to breakage of many baleen plates and extensive ulceration of the tongue and lips.
(2) This paper studies the delay equation chik + 1 = lambda chik + F(chik - beta), which has been employed as a model of baleen whale population dynamics.
(3) An aqueous abstract of the corpora lutea of the two baleen whales contained significant amounts of relaxin-like activity as determined by a mouse bioassay and by cross-reactivity with anti-pig relaxin antibodies.
(4) His team has seen humpbacks “lunge feeding”, where the whales rise up under giant shoals and take hundreds of thousands of pounds of fish into their mouths in one gulp, filtering out the seawater through their baleen grills and swallowing the fish.
(5) Twenty-eight samples consisting of 4 species (10 samples) of baleen whales (Mysticeti) and 8 species (18 samples) of toothed whales (Odontoceti) were analyzed.
(6) The electrophoretic profiles were species-specific on the 4 toothed whale species that did not have a marked intra-species difference, and all 4 baleen whale species.
(7) The development of the olfactory and terminalis systems was studied in tissue from eight embryonic and early fetal specimens belonging to three species of baleen whales.
(8) Homologous loci could indeed be amplified from a diverse range of whales, including all toothed (Odontoceti) and baleen whales (Mysticeti) tested.
(9) Having inspected the carcass and its vast curtain of baleen with which it had once strained a ton of zooplankton a day, Evelyn marvelled that "an Animal of so greate a bulk, should be nourished onely by slime".
(10) The hard keratins comprising wool, hairs, quills, hooves, horns, nails and baleen contain partly alpha-helical polypeptides which show homology with epidermal polypeptides only in the helical regions.
(11) This suggests the interesting possibility of actively encouraging the population recovery of three species of large baleen whales.
(12) In contrast to toothed whales, baleen whales, particularly in these ontogenetic stages, are much less specialized in nasal organ morphology.
(13) The sei whale belongs to the suborder baleen whales of the order Cetacea.
Whalebone
Definition:
(n.) A firm, elastic substance resembling horn, taken from the upper jaw of the right whale; baleen. It is used as a stiffening in stays, fans, screens, and for various other purposes. See Baleen.
Example Sentences:
(1) Its remains were recently put on display in the Museum of Docklands, although its jawbones stood as a roadside arch in Dagenham, still remembered in the name of Whalebone Lane.
(2) The tandemly organized common cetacean component, which comprises a large portion of all cetacean--both odontocete (toothed whale) and mysticete (whalebone whale)--genomes has a repeat length of 1,760 bp and the three clones analysed showed a high degree of conformity.
(3) Throughout the centuries, tongue scrapers have been constructed of thin, flexible strips of wood, various meals, ivory, mother-of-pearl, whalebone, celluloid, tortoiseshell, and plastic.
(4) Little has changed in the streets around Royal Crescent since; a whalebone arch still stands, framing the cold grey North Sea (though the current one is the third to have been erected since the original in 1853).
(5) The hypoglossal nucleus of whalebone whales is composed of four major subdivisions, forming four parallel columns, here called the dorsomedial, the dorsolateral, the ventromedial and the ventrolateral XII columns.
(6) If you thought you could get away with a quick sketch of that Victorian whalebone corset or the butt-lifting boxers, think again: the museum has introduced a ban on drawing too.
(7) In the toothed whale Phocaena communis the differentiation of the hypoglossal nucleus is less clearcut than in whalebone whales, but a similar structural priniciple is recognizable.
(8) At the 50th anniversary of the couple's accession to the ducal title, Debo swanned into the marquee in a costume created for a Victorian duchess at a 19th-century Chatsworth thrash: she found its whaleboning very supportive.
(9) This method uses whalebone instead of extracted teeth.
(10) The ventromedial XII column extends throughout the hypoglossal nucleus, forming in whalebone whales the rostral as well as the caudal end of the nucleus.
(11) Underwear goes on show at the Victoria and Albert Museum Read more From whalebone to wire, state-of-the-art spandex to austerity-era paper, boobs and bums have been progressively enlarged, shaped, squeezed and hoisted by ever more elaborate materials and mechanisms.
(12) In the mysticetes (whalebone whales) the repeat length of the satellite is 1,760 bp.
(13) Comparative study of diplogonadal diphillobothriids from different species of whalebone whales and from man (Japan) and analysis of literary data has made it possible to establish their identity.
(14) Only the species Diplogonoporus balaenopterae (Lönnberg, 1892 capable of infecting whalebone whales, dogs and man can be regarded as really existing.