Clues for the word "BALEEN"
We've had 15 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 32 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Penny Dell Daily crossword on August 14, 2025.
Definition of baleen
- 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.
Referring Clues
- Corset-stiffening material
- Whalebone
- Keratinous substance on some marine mammals
- Whale variety
- Toothless whale
- Whale-bone
- Whale bone
- Substance used by whales as a feeding filter
- Kind of whale
- Corset material, once
- Enable (anag) - whalebone
- Traditional Alaskan basket material
- Whale's food-filtering system
- Kind of whale with two blowholes
- Bristly filter feeding system in whales
Last Seen In
- Penny Dell Daily - August 14, 2025
- USA Today - March 11, 2025
- Daily American - August 23, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - March 22, 2024
- Daily American - March 04, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - January 02, 2024
- New York Times - July 30, 2023
- Daily American - August 23, 2022
- LA Times - January 19, 2018
- Guardian Quick - October 23, 2017
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - February 12, 2017
- New York Times - June 28, 2016
- Canadiana - April 18, 2016
- LA Times - October 19, 2014
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - December 21, 2012
- New York Times - June 29, 2011
- LA Times - September 03, 2010
- Thinks Daily - August 04, 2010
- LA Times - May 23, 2010
- LA Times Sunday - February 21, 2010
- Family Time - January 24, 2010
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - May 18, 2009
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - January 20, 2008
- Canadiana - January 07, 2008
- Universal - December 25, 2007
- Washington Post - March 23, 2007
- New York Sun - January 16, 2007
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - November 06, 2006
- USA Today - February 02, 2006
- Washington Post - August 05, 2004
- And in 2 more crossword puzzles...