Bottlenose

//ˈbɒtəlnəʊz// noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    bottlenose dolphin.
  2. 2
    northern Atlantic beaked whale with a bulbous forehead wordnet
  3. 3
    bottlenose whale.
  4. 4
    any of several dolphins with rounded forehead and well-developed beak; chiefly of northern Atlantic and Mediterranean wordnet
  5. 5
    bottlenose skate.
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  1. 6
    The beak or rostrum of a dolphin.

    "I didn’t have a mirror, but I could guess how gross I looked. I had this huge, long bottlenose sticking out of my otherwise normal face. My skin was gray rubber. And when I felt behind me with my rapidly shriveling hands, I could feel the triangular blade of a dorsal fin rising out of my spine."

Synonyms

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bottle nosed whalebottle-nosed dolphinbottle-nosed whalebottlenose dolphinbottlenose dolphinbottlenose skate

Example

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"Bottlenose dolphins are one of the most intelligent animals on Earth."

Etymology

From bottle + nose. The creatures have a bottle-shaped nose.

Related phrases

bottlenose dolphinbottlenose skatebottlenose whale

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