| 单词 | dolphin |
| 释义 | dolphin /dol"fin, dawl"-/, n. 1. any of several chiefly marine, cetacean mammals of the family Delphinidae, having a fishlike body, numerous teeth, and the front of the head elongated into a beaklike projection. 2. Also called dolphinfish, mahimahi. either of two large, slender fishes, Coryphaena hippurus or C. equisetis, of warm and temperate seas. 3. Naut. a. a pile, cluster of piles, or buoy to which a vessel may be moored in open water. b. a cluster of piles used as a fender, as at the entrance to a dock. c. a pudding fender at the nose of a tugboat or on the side of a vessel. 4. (cap.) Astron. the constellation Delphinus. [1300-50; ME dolphyn < OF daulphin < OPr dalfin < VL *dalfinus, L delphinus < Gk delphín] |
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