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Bottlenose

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Noun

1. bottle-nosed dolphin, bottlenose, bottlenose dolphin

any of several dolphins with rounded forehead and well-developed beak; chiefly of northern Atlantic and Mediterranean

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

northern Atlantic beaked whale with a bulbous forehead

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Bottlenose

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noun
a kind of whale or dolphin

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Bottlenose

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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

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

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