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Webster 1913 Edition
Balaenoidea
‖
Balˊæ-noi′de-a
,Noun.
[NL., from L.
balaena
whale + -oid
.] (Zool.)
A division of the Cetacea, including the right whale and all other whales having the mouth fringed with baleen. See
Baleen
.