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Definitions of dolphin in various dictionaries:
noun - large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (especially around Hawaii)
noun - any of various small toothed whales with a beaklike snout
Any of various marine cetacean mammals, such as the bottle-nosed dolphin, of the family Delphinidae, related to the whales but generally smaller and having a beaklike snout.
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| The Amazon type of this cetacean has a much longer snout than marine types like the bottlenose |
| If you visit the Turks & Caicos Islands, you may see Jojo, a friendly bottlenosed one of these mammals |
| Naturalist John C. Lilly said in June 1960 that this mammal may have a higher IQ than man |
| Flipper |
| One of the smallest species of this warm-blooded cetacean is the buffeo; hello... |
| In his first film, Ace Ventura, Pet Detective, searches for one of these marine mammals |
| Herodotus told the tale of Arion's rescue at sea by one of these mammals |
| Don't worry if you see this word on a Barbados menu: it refers to a fish, not the star of "Flipper" |
| Like Flipper, you may do this swim kick, moving both legs up & down at the same time & keeping more bend in your knees |
| Andrea Del Verrocchio sculpted his bronze "Boy With" this sea creature for a Medici villa |
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| a small gregarious toothed whale which typically has a beak-like snout and a curved fin on the back. Dolphins have become well known for their sociable nature and high intelligence. |
| any of various small toothed whales with a beaklike snout larger than porpoises |
| large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (especially around Hawaii) |
| a sea mammal that is large, smooth, and grey, with a long, pointed mouth |
| a sea mammal that looks like a large fish with a pointed mouth |
| A small gregarious toothed whale that typically has a beaklike snout and a curved fin on the back. Dolphins have become well known for their sociable nature and high intelligence. |
| A bollard, pile, or buoy for mooring boats. |
| A structure for protecting the pier of a bridge. |
| Any of various marine cetacean mammals, such as the bottle-nosed dolphin, of the family Delphinidae, related to the whales but generally smaller and having a beaklike snout. |
| A large marine food and game fish (Coryphaena hippurus) found worldwide in tropical waters, having an iridescent blue back, yellow sides, a steep blunt forehead, and a long continuous dorsal fin. Also called dolphinfish, dorado, mahi-mahi. |
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Dolphins are a widely distributed and diverse group of aquatic mammals. They are an informal grouping within the order Cetacea, excluding whales and porpoises, so to zoologists the grouping is paraphyletic. The dolphins comprise the extant families Delphinidae (the oceanic dolphins), Platanistidae (the Indian river dolphins), Iniidae (the new world river dolphins), and Pontoporiidae (the brackish dolphins), and the extinct Lipotidae (baiji or Chinese river dolphin). There are 40 extant species of dolphins. Dolphins, alongside other cetaceans, belong to the clade Cetartiodactyla with even-toed ungulates. Cetaceans' closest living relatives are the hippopotamuses, having diverged about 40 million years ago. * Dolphins range in size from the 1.7 m (5.6 ft) long and 50 kg (110 lb) Maui's dolphin to the 9.5 m (31 ft) and 10 t (11 short tons) killer whale. Several species exhibit sexual dimorphism, in that the males are larger than females. They have streamlined bodies and two limbs that are m |