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 "tursiops truncatus".
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.
Fallow Stenos bredanensis and Tursiops truncatus dolphins, left untouched by the gene-crafters, could outswim any of the &ldquo.
Fallow Stenos bredanensis and Tursiops truncatus dolphins, left untouched by the gene-crafters, could out swim any of the “.
She found her old friend's sonic patterns rife with undertones of Primal -- the natural cetacean demi-language used by wild Tursiops truncatus dolphins back on Earth -- a dialect that members of the modern amicus breed were supposed to avoid, lest their minds succumb to tempting ancient ways.
She found her old friend's sonic patterns rife with undertones of Primal the natural cetacean demi-language used by wild Tursiops truncatus dolphins back on Eartha dialect that members of the modern amicus breed were supposed to avoid, lest their minds succumb to tempting ancient ways.