Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name of several species of cetaceans having bottle-shaped noses.
- noun In medicine, an eruption of small, red, suppurating tubercles on the nose, such as is produced by intemperate drinking.
- noun A name at St. Andrews, Scotland, of the sea-stickleback
- noun A name for the puffin, Fratercula arctica, from its large red-and-blue beak. See
bottle-nosed . - noun A name of the sea-elephant or elephant-seal, Macrorhinus leoninus, and others of the same genus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A grey cetacean of the Dolphin family, of several species, as
Delphinus Tursio andLagenorhyncus leucopleurus , of Europe. - noun The puffin.
- noun a north Atlantic beaked whale with a bulbous forehead.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of several dolphins with rounded forehead and well-developed beak; chiefly of northern Atlantic and Mediterranean
- noun northern Atlantic beaked whale with a bulbous forehead
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Examples
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Irish scientists believe that a group of bottle-nose dolphins that live in a river estuary in the southwest of the country have developed their own dialect to communicate with each other: As part of a research project, student Ronan Hickey digitised and analysed a total of 1,882 whistles from the Irish dolphins and those from Cardigan Bay in Wales on a computer and separated them into six fundamental whistle types and 32 different categories.
Archive 2007-05-01 2007
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Cute 'n' cuddly (and how many sea creatures do you know get to claim those adjectives?), the titular bottle-nose dolphin of the classic sixties TV show was a real Up with People kinda mammal.
Dan Persons: Mighty Movie Podcast: Flipper Agonists: Louie Psihoyos on The Cove 2009
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Nearly all visitors (100,000 per year) come to see a group of wild bottle-nose dolphins which has been coming regularly to feed and interact with people at Monkey Mia beach for more than 30 years.
Shark Bay, Australia 2008
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TUCHMAN: But the future didn't always appear so bright for these bottle-nose dolphins.
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TUCHMAN: But the future didn't always appear so bright for these bottle-nose dolphins.
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And it's a whale of a time to be in London, where a lost and possibly sick bottle-nose whale is causing a stir.
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Remember last week we showed you these pictures of the bottle-nose whale in the shadow, at one point, of Big Ben.
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TUCHMAN: ... we see the six female and two male bottle-nose dolphins, that only know how to survive in captivity, not being used to the wild.
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A rival personage to this little fairy queen is a portly old fellow with a bottle-nose, who goes about in a rusty garb with
The Alhambra 2002
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A rival personage to this little fairy queen is a portly old fellow with a bottle-nose, who goes about in a rusty garb with
The Alhambra 2002
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