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Categories: Baleen whales, Taxa named by Edward Drinker Cope, Articles with short description, Articles with 'species' microformats, long volume value
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baleen whale  whalebone whale  Mysticeti  Baleen cetacean  baleen cetaceans
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Whale with plates of whalebone along the upper jaw for filtering plankton from the water WordNet 3.0
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Baleen whales, also known as whalebone whales, are a parvorder of carnivorous marine mammals of the infraorder Cetacea which use keratinaceous baleen plates in their mouths to sieve planktonic creatures from the water. Wikipedia
Parvorder of mammals Wikidata
Any of several large whales, of the suborder Mysticeti, that have plates of whalebone instead of teeth. Wiktionary
Whale of the Mysticeti suborder. Wiktionary (translation)