| 单词 | dolphin |
| 释义 | dolphin (once / 1194 pages) n WORD FAMILY dolphin: dolphins USAGE EXAMPLESThirty seconds later, a woman shows up dressed like a shark who calls herself a dolphin, which is probably a metaphor. Time(Jan 02, 2017) By the time rescue crews arrived, the number of dolphins was up to 10. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) The Dolphins play at Pittsburgh on Sunday and will be seeking their first postseason victory in 16 years. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1n any of various small toothed whales with a beaklike snout; larger than porpoises Hypo|Hyper Delphinus delphis, common dolphin black-and-white dolphin that leaps high out of the water; bottle-nosed dolphin, bottlenose, bottlenose dolphinany of several dolphins with rounded forehead and well-developed beak; chiefly of northern Atlantic and Mediterranean porpoiseany of several small gregarious cetacean mammals having a blunt snout and many teeth Grampus griseus, grampusslaty-grey blunt-nosed dolphin common in northern seas Orcinus orca, grampus, killer, killer whale, orca, sea wolfpredatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seas Globicephala melaena, black whale, blackfish, common blackfish, pilot whalesmall dark-colored whale of the Atlantic coast of the United States; the largest male acts as pilot or leader for the school river dolphinany of several long-snouted usually freshwater dolphins of South America and southern Asia Delphinapterus leucas, beluga, white whalesmall northern whale that is white when adult Atlantic bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatusthe most common dolphin of northern Atlantic and Mediterranean; often kept captive and trained to perform Pacific bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops gillia bottlenose dolphin found in the Pacific Ocean Phocoena phocoena, harbor porpoise, herring hogthe common porpoise of the northern Atlantic and Pacific Phocoena sinus, vaquitaa short porpoise that lives in the Gulf of California; an endangered species toothed whale any of several whales having simple conical teeth and feeding on fish etc. 2n large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (especially around Hawaii) Syn|Hypo|Hyper dolphinfish, mahimahi Coryphaena hippurus the more common dolphinfish valued as food; about six feet long Coryphaena equisetisa kind of dolphinfish percoid, percoid fish, percoidean any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes |
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