Usually means: Flexible, durable baleen from whales.
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  1. whalebone: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. whalebone: Merriam-Webster
  3. whalebone: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. whalebone: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. whalebone: Collins English Dictionary
  6. whalebone: Vocabulary.com
  7. Whalebone, whalebone: Wordnik
  8. whalebone: Wiktionary
  9. whalebone: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. whalebone: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. whalebone: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. whalebone: Dictionary.com
  13. Whalebone (disambiguation), Whalebone (horse), Whalebone: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Whalebone: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. whalebone: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. whalebone: Rhymezone
  17. Whalebone: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. whalebone: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. Whalebone: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  20. whalebone: FreeDictionary.org
  21. whalebone: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. whalebone: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. whalebone: Encyclopedia

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  1. whalebone: Medical dictionary

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  1. whalebone: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  The horny material from the fringed plates of the upper jaw of baleen whales that are used to filter plankton; once used as stays in corsets

Similar:
baleen, whalebone whale, baleen whale, toothless whale, fishbone, white horse, whalefeed, bone, whale barnacle, pin bone, more...

Opposite:
ivory, plastic, flexible, soft, non-rigid

Types:
baleen, more...

Phrases:
whalebone whales, whalebone whale, old whalebone product, more...

Adjectives:
black, long, flexible, thin, white, bent, stiff, finest, valuable, little, polished



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Similar:
baleen, whalebone whale, baleen whale, toothless whale, fishbone, white horse, whalefeed, bone, whale barnacle, pin bone, more...

Opposite:
ivory, plastic, flexible, soft, non-rigid

Types:
baleen, more...

Phrases:
whalebone whales, whalebone whale, old whalebone product, more...

Adjectives:
black, long, flexible, thin, white, bent, stiff, finest, valuable, little, polished



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