whalebone

Word family nounwhalerwhalerywhalebackwhaleboatwhalebonewhalemanwhaleadjectivewhaling

whale·bone /ˈweɪlbəʊn $ -boʊn/ noun [uncountableU]

TIHBAa hard substance taken from the upper jaw of whales, used in the past for making women’s clothes stiff 〔旧时用以保持妇女衣服挺括的〕鲸须，鲸骨

Examples from the Corpus

whalebone• The cetaceans are divided into two groups: the baleen whales which have whalebone instead of teeth and the toothed whales.• It yielded twenty-five whales, seventeen hundred barrels of oil, and three tons of whalebone.• From the whalebone bodices of the nineteen hundreds to the flimsy teasers of the nineties.

词汇	whalebone
释义	whalebone Word family nounwhalerwhalerywhalebackwhaleboatwhalebonewhalemanwhaleadjectivewhaling whale·bone /ˈweɪlbəʊn $ -boʊn/ noun [uncountableU] TIHBAa hard substance taken from the upper jaw of whales, used in the past for making women’s clothes stiff 〔旧时用以保持妇女衣服挺括的〕鲸须，鲸骨 Examples from the Corpus whalebone• The cetaceans are divided into two groups: the baleen whales which have whalebone instead of teeth and the toothed whales.• It yielded twenty-five whales, seventeen hundred barrels of oil, and three tons of whalebone.• From the whalebone bodices of the nineteen hundreds to the flimsy teasers of the nineties.
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