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
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whalebone• 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.