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Bottle-nosed
(gcide) | Bottle-nosed \Bot"tle-nosed`\ (-n[=o]zd), a.
Having the nose bottle-shaped, or large at the end.
--Dickens.
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bottlenosed
(devil) | BOTTLE-NOSED, adj. Having a nose created in the image of its maker.
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Bottle-nosed
(gcide) | Bottle-nosed \Bot"tle-nosed`\ (-n[=o]zd), a.
Having the nose bottle-shaped, or large at the end.
--Dickens.
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Bottle-nosed dolphin
(gcide) | Bottle-nose \Bot"tle-nose`\ Bottle-nosed dolphin \Bot"tle-nosed`
dolphin\, n. (Zool.)
1. A grey cetacean of the Dolphin family, of several species,
as Delphinus Tursio and Lagenorhyncus leucopleurus, of
Europe.
Note: Also Tursiops truncatus -- a synonym?
Syn: bottlenose dolphin.
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2. The puffin.
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3. a north Atlantic beaked whale with a bulbous forehead.
Syn: bottle-nosed whale, bottlenose whale, Hyperoodon
ampullatus.
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bottle-nosed whale
(gcide) | Sperm whale \Sperm" whale`\ (Zool.)
A very large toothed whale (Physeter macrocephalus), having
a head of enormous size. The upper jaw is destitute of teeth.
In the upper part of the head, above the skull, there is a
large cavity, or case, filled with oil and spermaceti. This
whale sometimes grows to the length of more than eighty feet.
It is found in the warmer parts of all the oceans. Called
also cachalot, and spermaceti whale.
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Pygmy sperm whale (Zool.), a small whale ({Kogia
breviceps}), seldom twenty feet long, native of tropical
seas, but occasionally found on the American coast. Called
also snub-nosed cachalot.
Sperm-whale porpoise (Zool.), a toothed cetacean
(Hyperoodon bidens), found on both sides of the Atlantic
and valued for its oil. The adult becomes about
twenty-five feet long, and its head is very large and
thick. Called also bottle-nosed whale.
[1913 Webster]Bottlehead \Bot"tle*head`\, n. (Zool.)
A cetacean allied to the grampus; -- called also
bottle-nosed whale.
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Note: There are several species so named, as the pilot
whales, of the genus Globicephalus, and one or more
species of Hypero["o]don (Hypero["o]don bidens,
etc.), found on the European coast. See Blackfish, 1.
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