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  • Baleen is the apparatus toothless whales rely on to filter food from the sea. It is a feeding structure composed of flexible plates, made of the structural protein keratin, which grow downward from a whale’s upper jaw.

    Created: 7/22/21

    Last modified: 7/22/21

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  • Created: 2024-03-07T17:09:42Z

    鲸须

    Chinese

  • Created: 2021-07-22T15:22:14

    balein

    Dutch

  • Created: 2019-09-04T12:02:37

    baleens

    English

  • Created: 2019-09-04T12:02:37

    whalebones

  • Created: 2021-07-22T15:24:36

    fanon

    French

  • Created: 2022-09-25T22:49:24

    ვეშაპის ულვაში

    Georgian

  • Created: 2021-07-22T15:25:34

    Fanoni

    Italian

  • Created: 2021-07-22T15:22:53

    barder

    Norwegian Bokmål

  • Created: 2022-11-11T09:24:08

    fanoane

    Romanian

  • Created: 2021-07-22T15:24:10

    Barbas de ballena

    Spanish

  • Created: 2021-09-22T12:27:01

    balya (balina)

    Turkish

  • Created: 2021-09-22T12:23:18

    balina kemiği

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