bottle-nosed dolphin

bot·tle-nosed dolphin  (btl-nzd)

n.

Any of several marine mammals of the genus Tursiops, especially T. truncatus, widely distributed in temperate and tropical waters and characterized by a short protruding beak, a large stocky body, and a prominent falcate dorsal fin. Also called bottlenose.

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Noun

1.

bottle-nosed dolphin - any of several dolphins with rounded forehead and well-developed beak; chiefly of northern Atlantic and Mediterranean bottlenose, bottlenose dolphin 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