[mass noun]an elastic horny substance which grows in a series of thin parallel plates in the upper jaw of some whales and is used by them to strain plankton from the seawater 鲸须。 亦称 baleen ■strips of this substance, much used formerly as stays in corsets and dresses[as modifier] 鲸须制品 a whalebone bodice. 鲸须女式紧身胸衣。 ■bone or ivory from a whale or walrus 鲸(海象)骨;鲸(海象)牙