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Перевод: whalebone

[существительное]
китовый ус; изделие из китового уса

Тезаурус:

1. It is one of the "true" whales in that its mouth is furnished with plates of baleen (whalebone) through which it filters the water from the shoaling small fish on which it feeds.
2. He had the whalebone sent to him from the port of Leith from where several whalers operated.
3. However, I imagined their less well-corseted flesh was held in place by elastic rather than whalebone, for their fat slipped like butter as they squeezed between the tables and chairs.
4. Japan now also utilises other parts of the whale's body: blubber for food; oil for many things, including boot polish; whalebone in all kinds of articles; teeth in handicrafts ; skin for leather; and various internal organs that are put to assorted uses.
5. But baleen whales (Mysticeta), such as the blue whale and hump back, which use their vast curtains of whalebone to sieve a living from the sea, are very seldom stranded.
6. "So even the performing seals are disgusted with his cheeseparing by now, and that night the lyric soprano breaks one of the hoops of her crinoline in the middle of her best love song because he wouldn't run to proper whalebone, and I take myself aside and say to myself."
7. The cetaceans are divided into two groups: the baleen whales which have whalebone instead of teeth and the toothed whales.
8. Such swarms are fed on by mysticete (whalebone or baleen) whales, and experienced whale hunters sought the swarms of krill in the expectation that whales would be seeking them too.
9. It collects its food on a curtain of baleen or whalebone in its mouth and after a single meal may well have transferred to its stomach no less than 2 tons of tiny shrimps, each no more than 3 inches long.
10. 7.2 Whalebone plaque dated to 1480 plus/minus 80 BP (see p.122); however; the whale could have had an apparent radiocarbon "age" at death of several centuries (MLA 1987.10-;5.1; OxA-1164).
11. Mid-winter he carved figures in wood and whalebone, the latter called scrimshaw, which Mr Lambie, who owned Lambie's Shop Gift Emporium, sold for him, taking a percentage profit from every item bought.
12. They had whalebone in these stays and we used to cut pieces about half an inch long and in the daytime, I used to make a bag full and put them in between the doors and I'd go round the first time and put them in and when I went round later, if that whalebone was missing, I'd make enquiries.