baleen whale

English

A baleen whale surfacing.

Noun

baleen whale (plural baleen whales)

1. Any of several large whales, of the suborder Mysticeti, that have plates of whalebone instead of teeth

Synonyms

• baleen, great whale, mysticete, whalebone whale

Hyponyms

• blue whale
• gray whale
• humpback whale
• minke whale
• right whale

Translations

whale of the Mysticeti suborder

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鬚鯨／须鲸 (zh) (xūjīng)

• Dutch: baleinwalvis (nl)
• Finnish: hetulavalas (fi)
• French: baleine à fanons f
• Galician: balea (gl) f
• German: Bartenwal (de) m
• Ido: baleno (io)
• Italian: balenide (it) m
• Japanese: 鬚鯨 (ひげくじら, higekujira), ヒゲクジラ (higekujira)
• Korean: 수염고래 (suyeomgorae)
• Occitan: balena de fanons f
• Polish: fiszbinowiec m
• Russian: уса́тый кит (ru) m (usátyj kit)
• Spanish: ballena barbada f
• Swahili: nyangumi mwenye mfupanyangumi
• Swedish: bardval (sv) c
• Welsh: morfil balîn m