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spinner dolphins

spinner dolphins is the plural of spinner dolphin.

Meaning of spinner dolphin

Noun

spinner dolphin (plural spinner dolphins)

  1. A species of small dolphin (Stenella longirostris).
    • Spinner dolphins of both sexes sometimes engage in orgies of more than a dozen individuals, known as ‘wuzzles’.2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 59

Questions about spinner dolphins

What is spinner dolphins the plural of?
Spinner dolphins is the plural of spinner dolphin.

Words near spinner dolphins in the dictionary

  1. spinned
  2. spinnel
  3. spinnels
  4. spinner
  5. spinner dolphin
  6. spinner dolphins
  7. spinner knob
  8. spinner knobs
  9. spinner wheel
  10. spinner wheels
  11. spinnerbait

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