English Dictionary

baleen

IPA（発音記号）

/bəˈliːn/

名詞

不可算名詞 可算名詞 廃用

(physiology, uncountable) The keratinous material that makes up the plates in the mouth of the baleen whale, Mysticeti, which it uses to trap its food; formerly used in corsetry.

日本語の意味

鯨ひげ：鯨（特にミステシス科の鯨）の口内にある、食物を濾し取るためのケラチン質の板状の構造物。 / かつてはコルセットなどに用いられていた材料

The whale filtered tons of tiny krill through its baleen, trapping food while expelling seawater.

そのクジラは口の角質板（鯨のひげ）で大量のオキアミを濾し取り、海水を吐き出しながら餌を捕えていた。

意味（1）

(physiology, uncountable) The keratinous material that makes up the plates in the mouth of the baleen whale, Mysticeti, which it uses to trap its food; formerly used in corsetry.

You have probably never seen anything like this before, Mr. Toler. It is baleen, or if you prefer it, whalebone, taken from the mouth of the bowhead whale. It is used by the whale to filter its food.

意味（2）

(zoology, countable) A baleen whale,

Scammon estimates the number of baleens killed in the years 1835-72 at 131,000; once again, his figure needs to be adjusted.

意味（3）

(obsolete) A whale or other large fish.

The Balene is a fishe great and huge, much like to the Whale, and is so called, because of his outcasting and shedding of water, for they throwe water higher then other great fishes of the sea.

baleens （ plural ）