baleen whale

English

A baleen whale surfacing.

The blue whale, the world's biggest animal, is a baleen whale.

Noun

baleen whale (plural baleen whales)

1. Any of several large whales, of the parvorder Mysticeti, that have plates of whalebone (baleen) instead of teeth.

Synonyms

• baleen, great whale, mysticete, whalebone whale, toothless whale

Hyponyms

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

Coordinate terms

• toothed whale

Translations

whale of the Mysticeti parvorder

• 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 (ja) (ひげくじら, higekujira), ヒゲクジラ (ja) (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