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Bottle-nosed dolphin   /bˈɑtəl-noʊzd dˈɑlfən/   Listen
noun
Bottle-nosed dolphin, Bottle-nose  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?
Synonyms: bottlenose dolphin.
2.
The puffin.
3.
A north Atlantic beaked whale with a bulbous forehead.
Synonyms: bottle-nosed whale, bottlenose whale, Hyperoodon ampullatus.





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... return the compliment, Bud gulped in surprise. Instead of his chum, he found himself face to face with a bottle-nosed dolphin! ...
— Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung • Victor Appleton


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