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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A marine mammal (Tursiops truncatus) of temperate and tropical waters worldwide, having a short protruding beak, a gray or brown stocky body, and a prominent curved dorsal fin.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One of two species of gray
dolphin between 2 and 4 meters in length inhabitingwarm and temperateseas worldwide. - noun A member of the genus
Tursiops , thought to consist of three species.
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
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