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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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]