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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
.