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Meanings of bottle-nosed dolphin in English
Portuguese
tursiops Any of several dolphins with rounded forehead and well-developed beak; chiefly of northern Atlantic and Mediterranean.
Usage of bottle-nosed dolphin in English
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The bottle-nosed dolphin is catholic in its choice of sex partners.
2
Instead of his chum, he found himself face to face with a bottle-nosed dolphin!
3
Moko the bottle-nosed dolphin is morphing from being an attraction into a nuisance for some Gisborne locals.
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The occasion: a conference of bottle-nosed dolphins to discuss the evolution of their own intelligence.
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Infectious germs and toxins have killed bottle-nosed dolphins all over the eastern and southern coasts of the United States.
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The matter at issue was simple: Why did bottle-nosed dolphins have brains that were so much bigger than those of other animals?
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(1998); in bottle-nosed dolphins, see McBride and Hebb (1948), Brown and Norris (1956), and Tavolga (1966); in Amazon River dolphins, see Pilleri et al.