Usually means: Filtering system in whale mouths.
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  8. baleen: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (baleen)

noun:  (physiology, uncountable) The keratinous material that makes up the plates in the mouth of the baleen whale, Mysticeti, which it uses to trap its food; formerly used in corsetry.
noun:  (zoology, countable) A baleen whale.
noun:  (obsolete) A whale or other large fish.

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