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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
baleen
 
SYLLABICATION:ba·leen
PRONUNCIATION:  b-ln
NOUN: See whalebone (sense 1).
ETYMOLOGY:Middle English balene, from Old French baleine, from Latin balaena, whale, from Greek phalaina. See bhel-2 in Appendix I.
 
 
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