Defenition of the word dolphin

• Defenition of the word dolphin

  • A carnivorous aquatic mammal inhabiting mostly in the shallower seas of the continental shelves.
  • any of various small toothed whales with a beaklike snout; larger than porpoises
  • large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (especially around Hawaii)

Synonyms for the word dolphin

• • dolphinfish
  • mahimahi

Meronymys for the word dolphin

• • Coryphaenidae
  • Delphinidae
  • dolphinfish
  • family Coryphaenidae
  • family Delphinidae
  • mahimahi

Hyponyms for the word dolphin

• • beluga
  • black whale
  • blackfish
  • bottle-nosed dolphin
  • bottlenose
  • bottlenose dolphin
  • common blackfish
  • common dolphin
  • Coryphaena equisetis
  • Coryphaena hippurus
  • Delphinapterus leucas
  • Delphinus delphis
  • Globicephala melaena
  • grampus
  • Grampus griseus
  • killer
  • killer whale
  • orca
  • Orcinus orca
  • pilot whale
  • porpoise
  • river dolphin
  • sea wolf
  • white whale

Hypernyms for the word dolphin

• • percoid
  • percoid fish
  • percoidean
  • surname
  • toothed whale

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