| 释义 |
bottle-nosed dolphin
noun
or bottle-nose dolphin also bottle-nosed porpoise or bottle-nose porpoise \ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷-\; or bottle-nose \ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷\
: any of certain moderately large stout-bodied toothed whales that are usually all included in the genus Tursiops, have a prominent beak and falcate dorsal fin, and are most common in warm seas; especially : a nearly cosmopolitan dolphin (T. truncatus) |