English noun: dolphin |
1. | dolphin (animal) large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (especially around Hawaii) |
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| Synonyms | dolphinfish, mahimahi |
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| Broader (hypernym) | percoid, percoid fish, percoidean |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | Coryphaena equisetis, Coryphaena hippurus |
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| Part holonym | dolphinfish, mahimahi |
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| Member meronym | Coryphaenidae, family Coryphaenidae |
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| Domain region | Aloha State, Hawai'i, Hawaii, HI |
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2. | dolphin (animal) any of various small toothed whales with a beaklike snout; larger than porpoises |
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| Broader (hypernym) | toothed whale |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | beluga, black whale, blackfish, bottle-nosed dolphin, bottlenose, bottlenose dolphin, common blackfish, common dolphin, Delphinapterus leucas, Delphinus delphis, Globicephala melaena, grampus, grampus, Grampus griseus, killer, killer whale, orca, Orcinus orca, pilot whale, porpoise, river dolphin, sea wolf, white whale |
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| Member meronym | Delphinidae, family Delphinidae |
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