baleen

baleen has 2 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 6.

Definitions

• n.. 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.
• n.. a horny material from the upper jaws of certain whales; used as the ribs of fans or as stays in corsets