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Dictionary Results for Tursiops truncatus:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

Tursiops truncatus
    n 1: the most common dolphin of northern Atlantic and
         Mediterranean; often kept captive and trained to perform
         [syn: Atlantic bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Bottle-nose \Bot"tle-nose`\ Bottle-nosed dolphin \Bot"tle-nosed`
dolphin\, n. (Zool.)
   1. A grey cetacean of the Dolphin family, of several species,
      as Delphinus Tursio and Lagenorhyncus leucopleurus, of
      Europe.

   Note: Also Tursiops truncatus -- a synonym?

   Syn: bottlenose dolphin.
        [1913 Webster +PJC]

   2. The puffin.
      [1913 Webster]

   3. a north Atlantic beaked whale with a bulbous forehead.

   Syn: bottle-nosed whale, bottlenose whale, Hyperoodon
        ampullatus.
        [WordNet 1.5]

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