bottle-nosed dolphin

or bottlenose dolphin, bottlenosed dolphin

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noun

any of several dolphins of the genus Tursiops, common in North Atlantic and Mediterranean waters, having a rounded forehead and well-defined beak.

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Also called bottlenose.

Words nearby bottle-nosed dolphin

bottlehead, bottle imp, bottle-jack, bottleneck, bottlenose, bottle-nosed dolphin, bottlenose dolphin, bottle-nosed whale, bottle-o, bottle out, bottle party

How to use bottle-nosed dolphin in a sentence

Nothing does it quite like deftly decapitating a bottle of bubbly with a gleaming blade.
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That means that Champagne is fermented a second time in the bottle when sealed closed, which naturally produces the bubbles.
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If you need to store the bottle in the fridge, let it warm up for a few minutes on the counter before serving.
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We sing “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” and “Jingle Bells”.
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I get the bottle while he opens a desk drawer containing two glasses.
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One of the little girls in pigtails was holding him, while Miss Anne administered the feeding-bottle.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol|William J. Locke
The memory of the hawk-nosed, steel-eyed officer who rode from Kurnaul to Meerut in twenty-four hours smote him like a whip.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy
Shoals of tunny-fish, (fish four and five feet long, and belonging to the dolphin tribe,) were seen tumbling about the ship.
A Woman's Journey Round the World|Ida Pfeiffer
An hour later, I heard he was dead: that on his way to his home he had purchased a bottle of laudanum and swallowed the contents!
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He thrust one hand into his gold-coloured skirt, and produced a glass bottle full of some very cheap perfume from Europe.
Bella Donna|Robert Hichens