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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Bot·tle-nose 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.
 2. The puffin.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 bottlenose
      n 1: any of several dolphins with rounded forehead and
           well-developed beak; chiefly of northern Atlantic and
           Mediterranean [syn: bottlenose dolphin, bottle-nosed
            dolphin]
      2: northern Atlantic beaked whale with a bulbous forehead [syn:
          bottle-nosed whale, bottlenose whale, Hyperoodon
          ampullatus]