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bottle-nosed

bottle-nosed is the alternative form of bottlenosed.

Meaning of bottlenosed

Adjective

bottlenosed (comparative more bottlenosed, superlative most bottlenosed)

  1. Having a rounded prominent head, with a short snout, like the bottlenose whale.
  2. Having a long, round nose, reminiscent of the shape of a bottle.

Forms of bottle-nosed

comparativemore bottle-nosed
superlativemost bottle-nosed

Phrases with bottle-nosed

Questions about bottle-nosed

What is bottle-nosed the alternative form of?
Bottle-nosed is the alternative form of bottlenosed.

Words near bottle-nosed in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bottle-nosed (page history and authors); bottlenosed (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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