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dolphinesque

dolphinesque adjective: resembling or characteristic of dolphins.

Adjective

dolphinesque (comparative more dolphinesque, superlative most dolphinesque)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of dolphins.
    • Moving deliberately, the fish gave one smooth dolphinesque leap, spit out the hook, and reentered the water without a splash.1987, John Treadwell Nichols, A Fragile Beauty: John Nichols' Milagro Country: Text and Photographs From His Life and Work, Salt Lake City, UT: Peregrine Smith Books, →ISBN, page 95

Forms of dolphinesque

comparativemore dolphinesque
superlativemost dolphinesque
alternative formdolphin-esque

Origin of dolphinesque

From dolphin + -esque. Piecewise doublet of dolphinish.

Questions about dolphinesque

What does dolphinesque mean?
Dolphinesque means resembling or characteristic of dolphins.
What part of speech is dolphinesque?
Dolphinesque is an adjective.

Words near dolphinesque in the dictionary

  1. dolphin-strikers
  2. dolphinaria
  3. dolphinarium
  4. dolphinariums
  5. dolphinese
  6. dolphinesque
  7. dolphinet
  8. dolphinets
  9. dolphinfish
  10. dolphinfishes
  11. dolphinflesh

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