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6 letters · 8 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a horny material from the upper jaws of certain whales; used as the ribs of fans or as stays in corsets
originFrom Middle English baleyne, from Old French baleine (“whale, whalebone”), from Latin balaena (“whale”), from Ancient Greek φάλαινα (phálaina, “whale”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0