'Tursiops truncatus' definitions:
Definition of 'Tursiops truncatus'
(from WordNet)
noun
The most common dolphin of northern Atlantic and Mediterranean; often kept captive and trained to perform [syn: Atlantic bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus]
Definition of 'Tursiops truncatus'
From: 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]