| 单词 | whalebone |
| 释义 | whale·bone /ˈweɪlbəʊn $ -boʊn/ noun [uncountable] TIHBAa hard substance taken from the upper jaw of whales, used in the past for making women’s clothes stiff 〔旧时用以保持妇女衣服挺括的〕鲸须，鲸骨Examples 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.whale·bone nounChineseSyllable taken hard substance the of Corpus jaw a whales, upper from |
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