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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. any of several dolphins with rounded forehead and well-developed beak; chiefly of northern Atlantic and Mediterranean;
[syn: bottlenose dolphin, bottle-nosed dolphin, bottlenose]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Bottle-nose \Bot"tle-nose`\ Bottle-nosed dolphin \Bot"tle-nosed` dolphin\, n. (Zool.) 1. A grey cetacean of the Dolphin family, of several species, as Delphinus Tursio and Lagenorhyncus leucopleurus, of Europe. Note: Also Tursiops truncatus -- a synonym? Syn: bottlenose dolphin. [1913 Webster +PJC] 2. The puffin. [1913 Webster] 3. a north Atlantic beaked whale with a bulbous forehead. Syn: bottle-nosed whale, bottlenose whale, Hyperoodon ampullatus. [WordNet 1.5]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

bottle-nosed dolphin n 1: any of several dolphins with rounded forehead and well- developed beak; chiefly of northern Atlantic and Mediterranean [syn: bottlenose dolphin, bottle-nosed dolphin, bottlenose]