baleen whale

Noun baleen whale has 1 sense

• baleen whale(n = noun.animal) whalebone whale - whale with plates of whalebone along the upper jaw for filtering plankton from the water;
is a kind of whale
is a member of mysticeti, suborder mysticeti
has particulars: right whale, balaena mysticetus, bowhead, bowhead whale, greenland whale, razorback, rorqual, balaenoptera musculus, blue whale, sulfur bottom, humpback, humpback whale, megaptera novaeangliae, devilfish, eschrichtius gibbosus, eschrichtius robustus, gray whale, grey whale