bottle-nosed dolphin

Questions about bottle-nosed dolphin

What does bottle-nosed dolphin mean?

bottle-nosed dolphin means "any of several dolphins with rounded forehead and well-developed beak; chiefly of northern Atlantic and Mediterranean".

What is another word for bottle-nosed dolphin?

Close synonyms include bottlenose dolphin, bottlenose. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bottle-nosed dolphin a common word?

bottle-nosed dolphin is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.