"whalebone" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-whalebone.wav Forms: whalebones [plural]
Etymology: From whale + bone. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|whale|bone}} whale + bone Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} whalebone (countable and uncountable, plural whalebones)
  1. The horny material from the fringed plates of the upper jaw of baleen whales that are used to filter plankton; once used as stays in corsets Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (lifeform): Animal body parts, Whales Synonyms: baleen Derived forms: whalebone whale, whittle the whalebone Translations (horny material from fringed plates of upper jaw of baleen whale): балена (balena) [feminine] (Bulgarian), balein [neuter] (Dutch), balenosto (Esperanto), fanon [masculine] (French), balea [feminine] (Galician), Fischbein [neuter] (German), barto (Ido), fanone [masculine] (Italian), fiszbin [masculine] (Polish), кито́вый ус (kitóvyj us) [masculine] (Russian), ballena [feminine] (Spanish)

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