1. Any of several dolphins with rounded forehead and well-developed beak; chiefly of northern Atlantic and Mediterranean
   - bottlenose dolphin, bottle-nosed dolphin 
2. Northern Atlantic beaked whale with a bulbous forehead
   - bottle-nosed whale, bottlenose whale, Hyperoodon ampullatus

Derived forms: bottlenoses

Type of: beaked whale, dolphin

Part of: genus Hyperoodon, genus Tursiops, Hyperoodon, Tursiops

Encyclopedia: Bottlenose

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