DOLPHIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dolphin mean? 

• DOLPHIN (noun)
  The noun DOLPHIN has 2 senses:

1. large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (especially around Hawaii)
2. any of various small toothed whales with a beaklike snout; larger than porpoises

  Familiarity information: DOLPHIN used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOLPHIN (noun)

Meaning:

Large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (especially around Hawaii)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

dolphin; dolphinfish; mahimahi

Hypernyms ("dolphin" is a kind of...):

percoid; percoid fish; percoidean (any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes)

Meronyms (parts of "dolphin"):

dolphinfish; mahimahi (the lean flesh of a saltwater fish found it warm waters (especially Hawaii))

Domain region:

Aloha State; Hawai'i; Hawaii; HI (a state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islands)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dolphin"):

Coryphaena hippurus (the more common dolphinfish valued as food; about six feet long)

Coryphaena equisetis (a kind of dolphinfish)

Holonyms ("dolphin" is a member of...):

Coryphaenidae; family Coryphaenidae (large active pelagic percoid fish)

Meaning:

Any of various small toothed whales with a beaklike snout; larger than porpoises

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("dolphin" is a kind of...):

toothed whale (any of several whales having simple conical teeth and feeding on fish etc.)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dolphin"):

black whale; blackfish; common blackfish; Globicephala melaena; pilot whale (small dark-colored whale of the Atlantic coast of the United States; the largest male acts as pilot or leader for the school)

common dolphin; Delphinus delphis (black-and-white dolphin that leaps high out of the water)

bottle-nosed dolphin; bottlenose; bottlenose dolphin (any of several dolphins with rounded forehead and well-developed beak; chiefly of northern Atlantic and Mediterranean)

porpoise (any of several small gregarious cetacean mammals having a blunt snout and many teeth)

grampus; Grampus griseus (slaty-grey blunt-nosed dolphin common in northern seas)

grampus; killer; killer whale; orca; Orcinus orca; sea wolf (predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seas)

beluga; Delphinapterus leucas; white whale (small northern whale that is white when adult)

river dolphin (any of several long-snouted usually freshwater dolphins of South America and southern Asia)

Holonyms ("dolphin" is a member of...):

Delphinidae; family Delphinidae (dolphins)