baleen whale

noun
1.
whalebone whale.
Origin
1870-75
Examples from the web for baleen whale
  • Scientists identified the new species as a baleen whale from distinctive skull features.
  • The right whale is a baleen whale, meaning it has not teeth, but uses baleen plates to strain its prey.
  • Most baleen whale species remain severely depleted because of this commercial whaling.
  • The humpback whale is an endangered migratory baleen whale that occurs in all ocean basins of the world.
  • Blue whales are the largest baleen whale species--in fact they are the largest animal in the world.
  • All baleen whale species showed seasonal and geographic variation in call reception.
  • The humpback whale: seasonal feeding and breeding in a baleen whale.
  • The right whale is a robust, medium-size baleen whale.
British Dictionary definitions for baleen whale

baleen whale

noun
1.
another name for whalebone whale
baleen whale in Science
baleen whale  
Any of several usually large whales of the suborder Mysticeti, having a symmetrical skull with two blowholes and plates of baleen instead of teeth. Baleen whales include the humpback, blue, fin, minke, and right whales, and the rorquals. Compare toothed whale.