Definitionn. a horny material from the upper jaws of certain whales
Last update: June 11, 2015
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Whalebone is kept in the museum. [Please select]
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In this the feathers of the top of the head are very singular, looking like glossy curled shavings of black horn or whalebone, the effect being due to the dilatation of the shaft and its coalescence with the consolidated barbs. [Please select]
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Swift was a tall, wiry, angular person, who seemed made of equal parts of iron and whalebone. [Please select]
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Scientists recognize two suborders of living cetaceans: the whalebone whales, suborder Mysticeti, and the toothed whales, suborder Odontoceti. [Please select]
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"I call it next my heart; but there is a stout fortification of whalebone between heart and picture." [Please select]
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The thought of De Malfort's ridicule cut her like a whalebone whip. [Please select]
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The teeth or whalebone, as natural-history characters, lead to no results; the whole structure of the interior defies all _à-priori_ reasoning. [Please select]
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Cetacea might with some propriety be divided into whales with whalebone, and whales with teeth. [Please select]
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Those with whalebone have rudimentary teeth in both jaws in the foetal state. [Please select]
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1787), Hunter remarks that the organ of smell "is peculiar to the large and small Whalebone Whales." [Please select]
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It could be made "as pliable as kid, tougher than ox-hide, as elastic as whalebone, or as rigid as flint." [Please select]
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