bottlenose dolphin

Questions about bottlenose dolphin

What does bottlenose dolphin mean?

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

What is another word for bottlenose dolphin?

Close synonyms include bottle-nosed 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 bottlenose dolphin a common word?

bottlenose 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.