'Mysticete' definitions:
Definition of '
Mysticete
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Mysticete \Mys"ti*cete\, n. [Gr. my`stax the upper lip, also, the mustache + kh^tos a whale.] (Zool.) Any right whale, or whalebone whale. See
Cetacea
. [1913 Webster]
Words containing '
Mysticete'
The Mysticete or whalebone whales having no true teeth after birth but with a series of plates of whalebone see Baleen hanging down from the upper jaw on each side thus making a strainer through which they receive the small animals upon which they feed
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