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  • adjective Having a long, round nose; having a nose reminiscent of the shape of a bottle.

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Examples

  • At the moment a large pod of bottlenosed dolphins is making this part of the Tay its home, as it does each summer.

    I fought the Law... Jonathan 2007

  • She's a bottlenosed dolphin who may be the first ever to get a full artificial tail.

    CNN Transcript Sep 26, 2006 2006

  • One of the bottlenosed fraternity it was went by the name of

    Ulysses 2003

  • A familiar bottlenosed face peered apologetically over the gunwale.

    The Time of the Transference Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1987

  • One of the bottlenosed fraternity it was went by the name of James

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • NEW ORLEANS - A recent surge of baby bottlenosed dolphin deaths has a precedent four years ago in Texas, a federal scientist says.

    msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines 2011

  • Heaps of fish and corals, but the best bit was after the first bay we were cruising along and saw a pod af about 20-30 bottlenosed dolphins swimming round the boats and diving and stuff.

    TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010

  • They arent bottlenosed dolphins but I cant remember what sort they were!

    TravelPod.com Recent Updates 2009

  • The researchers subjected a captive-born Atlantic bottlenosed dolphin to increasingly loud sonar while monitoring the mammal's brainwaves.

    Mongabay.com News 2009

  • The researchers subjected a captive-born Atlantic bottlenosed dolphin to increasingly loud sonar while monitoring the mammal's brainwaves.

    Mongabay.com News 2009

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