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bottlenose

/ˈbɒtəlnəʊz/

bottlenose noun: bottlenose dolphin.

bottlenose: bottlenose dolphin
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Noun

bottlenose (plural bottlenoses)

  1. bottlenose dolphin.
  2. bottlenose whale.
  3. bottlenose skate.
  4. The beak or rostrum of a dolphin.
    • I didn’t have a mirror, but I could guess how gross I looked. I had this huge, long bottlenose sticking out of my otherwise normal face. My skin was gray rubber. And when I felt behind me with my rapidly shriveling hands, I could feel the triangular blade of a dorsal fin rising out of my spine.(Can we date this quote?), K A Applegate, The Message
    • The dolphin’s bottlenose struck the boy causing fatal internal injuries.2014 June 9, “Utah Toddler Killed By Dolphin In San Francisco”, in The Count

bottlenose meaning in Tamil

bottlenose in Tamil

நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், மீன் இனங்களில் ஒன்றாகும்

Examples of bottlenose in a sentence

  • Lilia leaned over the side and Merovinge rose up and touched her nose with the tip of her dolphin's bottlenose while Clovis said, "The water is quite pleasant folks."2019, Jay P Newcomb, Visigothic: The Legendary Journeys:
  • A dolphin might be thinking of ripping your heart out, or poking you to death with its bottlenose, the way it might do to a shark, but since it’s always smiling, you think it’s your friend.2016 September 24, “‘Challenger’ chronicles a son’s journey through mental illness”, in Statesman, archived from the original on 28 Sep...

Forms of bottlenose

pluralbottlenoses

Origin of bottlenose

From bottle + nose. The creatures have a bottle-shaped nose.

Phrases with bottlenose

Questions about bottlenose

What does bottlenose mean?
Bottlenose means bottlenose dolphin.
What is bottlenose in Tamil?
Bottlenose in Tamil is நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், மீன் இனங்களில் ஒன்றாகும். See Bottlenose meaning in Tamil.
How do you use bottlenose in a sentence?
Lilia leaned over the side and Merovinge rose up and touched her nose with the tip of her dolphin's bottlenose while Clovis said, "The water is quite pleasant folks."
What part of speech is bottlenose?
Bottlenose is a noun.
How do you pronounce bottlenose?
Bottlenose is pronounced /ˈbɒtəlnəʊz/.
What is the plural of bottlenose?
The plural of bottlenose is bottlenoses.

Words near bottlenose in the dictionary

  1. bottleneck inflation
  2. bottleneck inflations
  3. bottlenecked
  4. bottlenecking
  5. bottlenecks
  6. bottlenose
  7. bottlenose dolphin
  8. bottlenose dolphins
  9. bottlenose skate
  10. bottlenose skates
  11. bottlenose whale

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bottlenose (page history and authors); bottlenose (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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