Definitions
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- adjective Resembling a
dolphin or some aspect of one.
Etymologies
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dolphin + -like
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Examples
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Presto: groupers, lobsters and scallops proliferated, and gray whales -- which have a dolphinlike affinity for human contact-continued their comeback from extinction's edge.
Beware Of The Humans 2008
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The Universal Translator promptly squawked and spat out a string of fast-paced whistles and clicks, almost dolphinlike in its vocal range.
Time's Enemy Graf, L. A. 1996
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Surely we harbor pleasant cellular memories of dolphinlike romps in warm prehistoric seas, of gentle froggy transformations in the security of a water-filled womb.
Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas Robbins, Tom 1994
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