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Whalebone Moderate

Whalebone has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

a horny material from the upper jaws of certain whales; used as the ribs of fans or as stays in corsets

2

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

See Also
bone hoop crinolette corset fynnes baleen whale busk pandybat
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
horn
Rhyming Words
one done wone lone mone fone none zone pone cone hone rone sone jone ione yone tone gone bone prone
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