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单词 whalebone
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whalebone
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The underground igloo where Oomittuk was born, in 1962, had earthen walls braced with wood scraps and whalebone, and a single electric light bulb.
The New Yorker(Sep 05, 2016)
The drill came up first with topsoil and then with gravel and then with white sea sand full of shells and even pieces of whalebone.
John Steinbeck, East of Eden(1952)
By the 1960s, faded Victorian buildings were as popular as whalebone corsets.
Washington Post(Aug 05, 2016)
n a horny material from the upper jaws of certain whales; used as the ribs of fans or as stays in corsets
Syn|Hyper
baleen
horn
the material (mostly keratin) that covers the horns of ungulates and forms hooves and claws and nails
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