noun
or bottle-nose dolphin also bottle-nosed porpoise or bottle-nose porpoise ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷- ; or bottle-nose ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷
: any of certain moderately large stout-bodied toothed whales that are usually all included in the genus Tursiops, have a prominent beak and falcate dorsal fin, and are most common in warm seas ; especially : a nearly cosmopolitan dolphin ( T. truncatus )