bottlenose dolphin
See also: bottle-nose dolphin
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bottlenose dolphin (plural bottlenose dolphins)
- One of the species of gray dolphin in the genus Tursiops, between 2 and 4 meters in length inhabiting warm and temperate seas worldwide.
- (historically) Tursiops truncatus, the common bottlenose dolphin, famous for its presence in aquarium shows.
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- (Tursiops): Tursiops truncatus, Tursiops aduncus, Tursiops australis
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species of dolphin
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