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Mysticete

Noun, pl. mysticetes

1. Term for the taxon Mysticeti or any whale in that taxon; a mysticete is a whale that has baleen instead of teeth. Mysticetes are filter feeders, straining water through their baleen to capture prey items. Mysticetes include the largest of the whales, the fin and blue whales. The blue whale is the largest animal ever to have lived on earth. (onlinezoologists.com)

2. Any right whale, or whalebone whale. (biology-online.org)

3. Any of the baleen whales (of suborder Mysticeti). (wiktionary.org)