bottlenose dolphin, bottle-nosed dolphin, bottlenose

any of several dolphins with rounded forehead and well-developed beak; chiefly of North Atlantic and Mediterranean

• Atlantic bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus — the most common dolphin of North Atlantic and Mediterranean; often kept captive and trained to perform
• Pacific bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops gilli — a bottlenose dolphin found in the Pacific Ocean

• dolphin — any of various small toothed whales with a beaklike snout; larger than porpoises

• Tursiops, genus Tursiops — a genus of Delphinidae