Plates or blades of "whalebone," from two to twelve feet long, and sometimes a foot wide, which in certain whales (Balaenoidea) are attached side by side along the upper jaw, and form a fringelike sieve by which the food is retained in the mouth.
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Elasticity Roget’s Thesaurus §325
N. elasticity, springiness, spring, resilience, # renitency, buoyancy, rubber, india(n) rubber, latex, caoutchouc, whalebone, gum elastic, baleen, natural rubber, neoprene, synthetic rubber, buna-s, plastic, flexibility, young's modulus
Adj. elastic, flexible, tensile, spring, resilient, renitent, buoyant, ductile, stretchable, extendable
Phr. the stress is proportional to the strain
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