BOTTLENOSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bottlenose mean? 

• BOTTLENOSE (noun)
  The noun BOTTLENOSE has 2 senses:

1. any of several dolphins with rounded forehead and well-developed beak; chiefly of northern Atlantic and Mediterranean

2. northern Atlantic beaked whale with a bulbous forehead

  Familiarity information: BOTTLENOSE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOTTLENOSE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several dolphins with rounded forehead and well-developed beak; chiefly of northern Atlantic and Mediterranean

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

bottle-nosed dolphin; bottlenose; bottlenose dolphin

Hypernyms ("bottlenose" is a kind of...):

dolphin (any of various small toothed whales with a beaklike snout; larger than porpoises)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bottlenose"):

Atlantic bottlenose dolphin; Tursiops truncatus (the most common dolphin of northern Atlantic and Mediterranean; often kept captive and trained to perform)

Pacific bottlenose dolphin; Tursiops gilli (a bottlenose dolphin found in the Pacific Ocean)

Holonyms ("bottlenose" is a member of...):

genus Tursiops; Tursiops (a genus of Delphinidae)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Northern Atlantic beaked whale with a bulbous forehead

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

bottle-nosed whale; bottlenose; bottlenose whale; Hyperoodon ampullatus

Hypernyms ("bottlenose" is a kind of...):

beaked whale (any of several whales inhabiting all oceans and having beaklike jaws with vestigial teeth in the upper jaw)

Holonyms ("bottlenose" is a member of...):

genus Hyperoodon; Hyperoodon (bottle-nosed whales)

 Context examples 

As part of an unusual mortality event investigation, a team of scientists has discovered that dead bottlenose dolphins stranded in the northern Gulf of Mexico since the start of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill have lung and adrenal lesions consistent with petroleum product exposure.

(Deepwater Horizon oil spill contributed to high number of Gulf dolphin deaths, NOAA)