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bottle-nose dolphin

bottle-nose dolphin is the alternative form of bottlenose dolphin.

Meaning of bottlenose dolphin

Noun

bottlenose dolphin (plural bottlenose dolphins)

  1. One of the species of gray dolphin in the genus Tursiops, between two and four meters in length, inhabiting warm and temperate seas worldwide.
    1. (dated) Tursiops truncatus, the common bottlenose dolphin, famous for its presence in aquarium shows.

Forms of bottle-nose dolphin

pluralbottle-nose dolphins

Questions about bottle-nose dolphin

What is bottle-nose dolphin the alternative form of?
Bottle-nose dolphin is the alternative form of bottlenose dolphin.

Words near bottle-nose dolphin in the dictionary

  1. bottle-horse
  2. bottle-horses
  3. bottle-jack
  4. bottle-jacks
  5. bottle-nose
  6. bottle-nose dolphin
  7. bottle-nose dolphins
  8. bottle-nosed
  9. bottle-nosed dolphin
  10. bottle-nosed dolphins
  11. bottle-noses

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