bottlenose

Noun

Meaning

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

northern Atlantic beaked whale with a bulbous forehead

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

bottlenose dolphin bottle-nosed dolphin bottlenose whale Hyperoodon ampullatus bottle-nosed whale dauphin dolphin grampus build harness flipper rocker porpoise tumbler blackfish

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Hypernyms

dolphin beaked whale

Hyponyms

tursiops truncatus Atlantic bottlenose dolphin Pacific bottlenose dolphin tursiops gilli

Phrases with the word

North Pacific bottlenose whale northern giant bottlenose whale tropical bottlenose whale bottlenose dolphins common bottlenose dolphin bottlenose wedgefish

Examples

After a dead bottlenose dolphin washed up on a beach in Mississippi this spring, veterinarians discovered there had been foul play. Source: Internet

In subsequent tests the birds that had seen a tutor were more efficient feeders than the others. citation Bottlenose dolphin Herman (2002) suggested that bottlenose dolphins produce goal-emulated behaviors rather than imitative ones. Source: Internet

About 40 bottlenose dolphins live in the Port River, according to the South Australian National Parks. Source: Internet

Johnson, 1982, pp. 95–101 Observations of northern bottlenose whales in the Norwegian Sea are rare. Source: Internet

Get ready to be both sad and inspired by the beauty of nature: A lone bottlenose dolphin with a S-shaped spine deformity was spotted swimming among a pod of sperm whales in the North Atlantic. Source: Internet

Before that, I trained all five bottlenose dolphins for the television series “Flipper” in the 1960’s. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

bottleneck guitar bottleneck inflation bottlenecked area bottlenose dolphin bottlenose dolphins bottlenose skate