whalebone

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishwhalebonewhale‧bone /ˈweɪlbəʊn $ -boʊn/ noun [uncountable] TIHBAa hard substance taken from the upper jaw of whales, used in the past for making women’s clothes stiffExamples from the Corpuswhalebone• The cetaceans are divided into two groups: the baleen whales which have whalebone instead of teeth and the toothed whales.• It yielded twenty-five whales, seventeen hundred barrels of oil, and three tons of whalebone.• From the whalebone bodices of the nineteen hundreds to the flimsy teasers of the nineties.

单词	whalebone
释义	whalebone From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishwhalebonewhale‧bone /ˈweɪlbəʊn $ -boʊn/ noun [uncountable] TIHBAa hard substance taken from the upper jaw of whales, used in the past for making women’s clothes stiffExamples from the Corpuswhalebone• The cetaceans are divided into two groups: the baleen whales which have whalebone instead of teeth and the toothed whales.• It yielded twenty-five whales, seventeen hundred barrels of oil, and three tons of whalebone.• From the whalebone bodices of the nineteen hundreds to the flimsy teasers of the nineties.
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