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tursiop

tursiop noun: a bottlenose dolphin (of the genus Tursiops).

Noun

tursiop (plural tursiops)

  1. (nonstandard, rare) A bottlenose dolphin (of the genus Tursiops).
    • After the detection of a whistle, the localization of the tursiop is performed comparing the sound direction and the arrival time for each detection unit.2016 January 21, “A Permanent Automated Real-Time Passive Acoustic Monitoring System for Bottlenose Dolphin Conservation in the Mediterranean Sea”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Forms of tursiop

pluraltursiops

Questions about tursiop

What does tursiop mean?
Tursiop means a bottlenose dolphin (of the genus Tursiops).
What part of speech is tursiop?
Tursiop is a noun.
What is the plural of tursiop?
The plural of tursiop is tursiops.

Words near tursiop in the dictionary

  1. Turrubul
  2. turrón
  3. turs
  4. Tursdale
  5. Tursi
  6. tursiop
  7. tursiops
  8. Tursis
  9. Tursunay
  10. Tursunzoda
  11. turt

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