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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.
          [1913 Webster +PJC]
  
     2. The puffin.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. a north Atlantic beaked whale with a bulbous forehead.
  
     Syn: bottle-nosed whale, bottlenose whale, Hyperoodon
          ampullatus.
          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  bottlenose
       n 1: any of several dolphins with rounded forehead and
            well-developed beak; chiefly of northern Atlantic and
            Mediterranean [syn: {bottlenose dolphin}, {bottle-nosed
            dolphin}]
       2: northern Atlantic beaked whale with a bulbous forehead [syn:
           {bottle-nosed whale}, {bottlenose whale}, {Hyperoodon
          ampullatus}]

















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