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English noun: dolphin

1. dolphin (animal) large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (especially around Hawaii)


Synonymsdolphinfish, mahimahi


Broader (hypernym)percoid, percoid fish, percoidean


Narrower (hyponym)Coryphaena equisetis, Coryphaena hippurus


Part holonymdolphinfish, mahimahi


Member meronymCoryphaenidae, family Coryphaenidae


Domain regionAloha State, Hawai'i, Hawaii, HI

2. dolphin (animal) any of various small toothed whales with a beaklike snout; larger than porpoises


Broader (hypernym)toothed whale


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


Member meronymDelphinidae, family Delphinidae









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