COMMON DOLPHIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does common dolphin mean? 

• COMMON DOLPHIN (noun)
  The noun COMMON DOLPHIN has 1 sense:

1. black-and-white dolphin that leaps high out of the water

  Familiarity information: COMMON DOLPHIN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMMON DOLPHIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Black-and-white dolphin that leaps high out of the water

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

common dolphin; Delphinus delphis

Hypernyms ("common dolphin" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("common dolphin" is a member of...):

Delphinus; genus Delphinus (type genus of the Delphinidae)