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Noun dolphin has 2 senses
- dolphinfish, dolphin, mahimahi - large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (especially around Hawaii)
--1 is a kind of percoid fish, percoid, percoidean
--1 is a member of Coryphaenidae, family Coryphaenidae
--1 has parts: dolphinfish, mahimahi
--1 has particulars: Coryphaena hippurus; Coryphaena equisetis
- dolphin - any of various small toothed whales with a beaklike snout; larger than porpoises
--2 is a kind of toothed whale
--2 is a member of Delphinidae, family Delphinidae
--2 has particulars: | | common dolphin, Delphinus delphis; bottlenose dolphin, bottle-nosed dolphin, bottlenose; porpoise; grampus, Grampus griseus; killer whale, killer, orca, grampus, sea wolf, Orcinus orca; pilot whale, black whale, common blackfish, blackfish, Globicephala melaena; river dolphin; white whale, beluga, Delphinapterus leucas |
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