bottlenose dolphin (redirected from Bottlenose dolphins)

bottlenose dolphin

Noun

a grey or greenish dolphin with a bottle-shaped snout

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Noun

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bottlenose dolphin - any of several dolphins with rounded forehead and well-developed beak; chiefly of northern Atlantic and Mediterranean bottle-nosed dolphin, bottlenose dolphin - any of various small toothed whales with a beaklike snout; larger than porpoises genus Tursiops, Tursiops - a genus of Delphinidae Atlantic bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus - the most common dolphin of northern Atlantic and Mediterranean; often kept captive and trained to perform Pacific bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops gilli - a bottlenose dolphin found in the Pacific Ocean