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Noun: bottle-nosed dolphin
  1. Any of several dolphins with rounded forehead and well-developed beak; chiefly of northern Atlantic and Mediterranean
    - bottlenose dolphin, bottlenose

Derived forms: bottle-nosed dolphins

Type of: dolphin

Part of: genus Tursiops, Tursiops

Encyclopedia: Bottle-nosed dolphin