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DOLPHIN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of various small toothed whales with a beaklike snout; larger than porpoises
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("dolphin" is a kind of...):
toothed whale (any of several whales having simple conical teeth and feeding on fish etc.)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dolphin"):
common dolphin; Delphinus delphis (black-and-white dolphin that leaps high out of the water)
bottle-nosed dolphin; bottlenose; bottlenose dolphin (any of several dolphins with rounded forehead and well-developed beak; chiefly of northern Atlantic and Mediterranean)
porpoise (any of several small gregarious cetacean mammals having a blunt snout and many teeth)
grampus; Grampus griseus (slaty-grey blunt-nosed dolphin common in northern seas)
grampus; killer; killer whale; orca; Orcinus orca; sea wolf (predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seas)
black whale; blackfish; common blackfish; Globicephala melaena; pilot whale (small dark-colored whale of the Atlantic coast of the United States; the largest male acts as pilot or leader for the school)
river dolphin (any of several long-snouted usually freshwater dolphins of South America and southern Asia)
beluga; Delphinapterus leucas; white whale (small northern whale that is white when adult)
Holonyms ("dolphin" is a member of...):
Delphinidae; family Delphinidae (dolphins)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (especially around Hawaii)
Synonyms:
dolphin; dolphinfish; mahimahi
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("dolphin" is a kind of...):
percoid; percoid fish; percoidean (any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes)
Meronyms (parts of "dolphin"):
dolphinfish; mahimahi (the lean flesh of a saltwater fish found in warm waters (especially in Hawaii))
Domain region:
Aloha State; Haw.; Hawai'i; Hawaii; HI (a state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islands)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dolphin"):
Coryphaena hippurus (the more common dolphinfish valued as food; about six feet long)
Coryphaena equisetis (a kind of dolphinfish)
Holonyms ("dolphin" is a member of...):
Coryphaenidae; family Coryphaenidae (large active pelagic percoid fish)
Context examples:
In addition to the adrenal lesions, the scientific team discovered that more than one in five dolphins that died within the Deepwater Horizon oil spill footprint had a primary bacterial pneumonia.
(Deepwater Horizon oil spill contributed to high number of Gulf dolphin deaths, NOAA)
It looks like it was changes in the oceans, in the chemistry and in the ecology of the oceans, and so you had a long-term willowing away of these ichthyosaurs as they became less and less common, less and less diverse, until they trickled away to extinction, and then that is when groups like sharks and ultimately whales and dolphins moved on in," said the paleontologist.
(Sea Monster Swam Oceans 170 Million Years Ago, Voanews)
It would be fascinating to know whether dolphins respond to special calls made by fishermen, as Pliny the Elder asserted nearly two thousand years ago, says evolutionary biologist Dr Claire Spottiswoode (University of Cambridge and University of Cape Town).
(How humans and wild Honeyguide birds call each other to help, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Dolphins are particularly susceptible to inhalation effects due to their large lungs, deep breaths and extended breath hold times.
(Deepwater Horizon oil spill contributed to high number of Gulf dolphin deaths, NOAA)
Increased dolphin deaths following the oil spill are part of the northern Gulf of Mexico unusual mortality event investigation.
(Deepwater Horizon oil spill contributed to high number of Gulf dolphin deaths, NOAA)
The timing, location, and nature of the detected lesions support that contaminants from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill caused these lesions and contributed to the high numbers of dolphin deaths within this oil spill’s footprint.
(Deepwater Horizon oil spill contributed to high number of Gulf dolphin deaths, NOAA)
As part of an unusual mortality event investigation, a team of scientists has discovered that dead bottlenose dolphins stranded in the northern Gulf of Mexico since the start of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill have lung and adrenal lesions consistent with petroleum product exposure.
(Deepwater Horizon oil spill contributed to high number of Gulf dolphin deaths, NOAA)
