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Bottle-nosed Whale

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Noun

1. bottle-nosed whale, bottlenose, bottlenose whale, hyperoodon ampullatus

northern Atlantic beaked whale with a bulbous forehead

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Bottle-nosed Whale

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noun
a kind of whale or dolphin

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Bottle-nosed Whale

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noun
1. 
any of a genus (Tursiops) of marine dolphins with a bottle-shaped snout: an easily trained species (T. truncatus) is used in aquarium shows and scientific study
: also called bottle-nosed dolphin
2. 
any of a genus (Hyperoodon, family Ziphiidae) of toothed whales having a similar beaklike snout
: also called bottle-nosed whale

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