The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bottle-nose \Bot"tle-nose`\ Bottle-nosed dolphin \Bot"tle-nosed` dolphin\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
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A grey cetacean of the Dolphin family, of several species, as Delphinus Tursio and Lagenorhyncus leucopleurus, of Europe.
Note: Also Tursiops truncatus -- a synonym?
Syn: bottlenose dolphin.
The puffin.
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a north Atlantic beaked whale with a bulbous forehead.
Syn: bottle-nosed whale, bottlenose whale, Hyperoodon ampullatus.
Usage examples of "bottle-nose".
The nearest matches to the sample are a human female, age approximately late teens, and that of a common female of some species of Delphinidae closely akin to, but not identical to, the fully mature Pacific bottle-nosed dolphin .
Fishermen had found the bottle-nosed dolphin battered and bleeding off the coast of South Florida.
No regimen of weight training and pharmaceutical enhancement could have prepared him, or any mortal man, for an all-out sexual attack by a healthy bottle-nosed dolphin.
Recently he turned forty-one, the same age at which Bebe the bottle-nosed dolphin (one of seven who played Flipper on TV) passed away.
The men had been bitten and chewed by something possessing a jaw configuration approximating that of Tursiops truncatus, the bottle-nosed dolphin, a normal visitor and sometime resident of these same parks.
When it got within a few hundred yards of the California coast, it dropped most of its mass and became a bottle-nosed dolphin.
They had been lucky, and had brought back two dozen large Pacific salmon and a freshly killed bottle-nosed dolphin.
He thought it was a bottle-nosed dolphin until its size registered.
Instead of his chum, he found himself face to face with a bottle-nosed dolphin!
And only weeks ago, near Sandy Key, I saw a pod of bottle-nosed dolphins doing spectacular back-flips for no other reason but the joy of it.
As the truck crested the bridge, Skink pointed out a pod of bottle-nosed dolphins rolling along the edge of a choppy boat channel.
Dunkin leaned over the rail, took note of a school of bottle-nosed dolphins dancing in the prow waves and lost himself in thought.