- Any other whale that produces valuable whalebone, as the Atlantic or Biscay, right whale (Balaena cisarctica), and the Pacific right whale (B. Sieboldii); a bone whale.
- The bowhead, Arctic or Greenland whale (Balaena mysticetus), from whose mouth the best whalebone is obtained.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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