What is "stenos"

Usage examples of "stenos".

His uneven gray coloring and jagged teeth were marks of the Stenos sub-racial line, setting him and a number of others aboard apart from the Tursiops majority.

He tried to recall diving in deep water, the deep water of the Stenos, where the big-mouthed, smart-aleck, shore-hugging Tursiops were rare as dugongs.

But some had genetic grafts from Stenos bredanensis, the deep-water dolphin that had always been the closest to the bottlenose in intelligence.

On Earth many of the new Stenos had turned out very well, showing streaks of initiative and individual brilliance.

He had worked hard to convince the Council that it would be an important gesture to appoint a few Stenos to positions of responsibility on the first dolphin-crewed starship.

The speaker was a large male dolphin with the mottled gray coloration of one of the Stenos sub-breeds.

His bottle nose was blunt, and, unlike the other so-called Stenos aboard, his coloring was not mottled but deeply countershaded.

He got the Stenos and the cook separated at last, and led them under guard toward sick bay.

Another fin, an off-duty engine room rating, had followed him from a distance after he had left the equipment locker, and Akki had to dodge through the outlock to shake the Stenos off his tail.

A disproportionate number of the new figures of authority were of the Stenos sub-breed.

Already one of the armed Stenos guards, presumably carefully picked by the vice-captain, looked mutinously jubilant and chattered hopefully with Wattaceti.

But as the Stenos descended, Keepiru aimed a tight burst of clicks to carom off two metal-mounds across the channel.

Dart would probably be aboard then, as well as Ignacio Metz, three Stenos, and perhaps three or four Kiqui.

In the distance they could hear the Stenos crashing through the forest.

Kiqui village, he guessed the Stenos were amusing themselves with a destructive spree.