HyperDic: dolphin

English > 2 senses of the word *dolphin*:
NOUN	animal	dolphin, dolphinfish, mahimahi	large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (especially around Hawaii)
NOUN	animal	dolphin	any of various small toothed whales with a beaklike snout

dolphin > pronunciation
Sounds	daa'lfahn
Rhymes	Aachen ... Zukerman: 2572 rhymes with ahn...

English > *dolphin*: 2 senses > noun 1, animal
Meaning	large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (especially around Hawaii).
Synonyms	dolphinfish, mahimahi
Member of	Coryphaenidae, family Coryphaenidae	large active pelagic percoid fish
Parts	dolphinfish, mahimahi	The lean flesh of a saltwater fish found in warm waters (especially in Hawaii)
Region	Hawaii, Hawai'i, Aloha State, HI, Haw.	A state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islands
Narrower	Coryphaena equisetis	A kind of dolphinfish
Narrower	Coryphaena hippurus	The more common dolphinfish valued as food
Broader	percoid fish, percoid, percoidean	Any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes
Catalan	dofí

English > *dolphin*: 2 senses > noun 2, animal
Meaning	Any of various small toothed whales with a beaklike snout; larger than porpoises.
Member of	Delphinidae, family Delphinidae	dolphins
Narrower	bottlenose dolphin, bottle-nosed dolphin, bottlenose	Any of several dolphins with rounded forehead and well-developed beak
	common dolphin, Delphinus delphis	Black-and-white dolphin that leaps high out of the water
	grampus, Grampus griseus	Slaty-grey blunt-nosed dolphin common in northern seas
	killer whale, killer, orca, grampus, sea wolf, Orcinus orca	predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin
	pilot whale, black whale, common blackfish, blackfish, Globicephala melaena	small dark-colored whale of the Atlantic coast of the United States
	porpoise	Any of several small gregarious cetacean mammals having a blunt snout and many teeth
	river dolphin	Any of several long-snouted usually freshwater dolphins of South America and southern Asia
	white whale, beluga, Delphinapterus leucas	small northern whale that is white when adult
Broader	toothed whale	Any of several whales having simple conical teeth and feeding on fish etc.
Spanish	delfín, delphinidae
Catalan	dofí

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