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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 A carnivorous aquatic mammal inhabiting mostly in the shallower seas of the continental shelf, famed for its intelligence and occasional willingness to approach humans. 2 A fish, the mahi-mahi or dorado, ''Coryphaena hippurus'', with a ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (especially around Hawaii) [syn: dolphinfish , mahimahi ] any of various small toothed whales with a beaklike snout; larger than porpoises

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE dead ▪ Meanwhile each new tide brings in more dead dolphins . ▪ Not only are they free, but one dead dolphin can bait over 350 traps. striped ▪ The main target is striped dolphin , because it is the easiest to capture. ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
dolphin \dol"phin\ (d[o^]l"f[i^]n), n. [F. dauphin dolphin, dauphin, earlier spelt also doffin; cf. OF. dalphinal of the dauphin; fr. L. delphinus, Gr. delfi`s a dolphin (in senses 1, 2, 3, & 6), perh. properly, belly fish; cf. delfy`s womb, Skr. garbha; ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Dolphin is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Arthur Dolphin (1885–1942), English first-class cricketer Bill Dolphin (born 1881), Australian rules footballer David Dolphin (born 1940), Canadian biochemist Frank Dolphin , Irish businessman ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., from Old French daulphin , from Medieval Latin dolfinus , from Latin delphinus "dolphin," from Greek delphis (genitive delphinos ) "dolphin," related to delphys "womb," perhaps via notion of the animal bearing live young, or from its shape, from ...

Usage examples of dolphin.

In his dreams he was watching his father from six-year-old eyes, submerged to test depth on the old sub his father had commanded, and in the mirror was a child staring back at him wearing coveralls with a dolphin pin, and he went into the stateroom and Alameda was there, wearing something filmy and she began kissing him and she climbed into his rack with him.

Worry about the dolphins and whether the antidote worked, about the aquarium and how they were dealing in her absence, and mostly about what was going to happen when Trey returned.

And it shall be registred in the bookes of Doctours, that an Asse saved the life of a young maiden that was captive amongst Theeves : Thou shalt be numbred amongst the ancient miracles : wee beleeve that by like example of truth Phryxus saved himselfe from drowning upon the Ram, Arion escaped upon a Dolphin, and that Europa was delivered by the Bull.

The name of the bookie shop next door to the Dolphin comes after that, then Murphy follows, then some Muldoon fellow in Belfast.

After watching Adam and the dolphins together, I was convinced that they were communicating in some method indiscernible to my mundane senses, the way the Bunraku puppeteers had communicated with me while I was pregnant.

It passed through many editions and was honored by being pirated by the Giunta, famous printer publishers in Florence, who even copied the famous Aldine mark of the Dolphin and Anchor.

What seemed the upper quadrant of a slowly turning and very thick wheel was the curving back of a dolphin, and always good for a yell, and sometimes a dozen or so of them would play games with the ship, racing to cut across the bow from side to side and so close that it seemed the cutwater must hit them.

He then explained at length how the dolphin had been purchased and trained at a dolphinarium in America until she could have made the pick-up blindfolded.

It is by echolocation that dolphins can detect the presence of food and move toward it unerringly even in murky water and at night, when the sense of sight is inadequate.

In the center of the garden, a fountain fashioned of marble in the form of three dolphins sent up a cheerful spray.

Annette Dolphin, working with Tim Bliss, showed that, when the perforant pathway is stimulated in vivo, there is an increased release of glutamate in the hippocampus, and the biochemical mechanisms of this release were mapped in some detail by Marina Lynch.

Physical sciences was slaved to a dolphin named Melon-dent, a Waldahud was at life sciences, and a human named Denna Van Hausen was at External Ops.

Adams and Carwardine spent the next year traveling the world and seeing endangered animals, like flightless kakapo parrots in New Zealand and baiji river dolphins in China.

The coin is about as large as the American silver dollar, and is carved in high relief, on one side showing Dionysius in the quadriga being crowned by winged Victory and on the reverse, Arethusa, the tutelary goddess of the sea, surrounded by her dolphins.

Who would have thought that we dolphins, youngest registered sapient race in the Civilization of Five Galaxies, would become patrons ourselves, just a few centuries after humans started uplifting us.