"plate" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Humpbacks have 270 to 400 darkly coloured baleen plates on each side of their mouths.
- Minke whales have between 240 and 360 baleen plates on each side of their mouths.
- Right whales have between 200 and 300 baleen plates on each side of their mouths.
- The whale then expels the water, using its baleen plates to retain the prey.
- Like other rorquals, it has no teeth, but has two rows of baleen plates.
- An adult has between 262 and 473 baleen plates on each side of the mouth.
- The water is then squeezed out through the baleen plates by pressure from the ventral pouch and tongue.
- A whale's baleen plates play the most important role in its filter-feeding process.
- Instead they stripped off the layers of blubber and cut out the baleen plates.
- The herring are trapped against the sieve of baleen plates.
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