Lexic.us

Definition of Bottlenose

1. Noun. Any of several dolphins with rounded forehead and well-developed beak; chiefly of northern Atlantic and Mediterranean.

2. Noun. Northern Atlantic beaked whale with a bulbous forehead.

Definition of Bottlenose

1. n. A cetacean of the Dolphin family, of several species, as Delphinus Tursio and Lagenorhyncus leucopleurus, of Europe.

Definition of Bottlenose

1. Noun. bottlenose dolphin. ¹

2. Noun. bottlenose whale. ¹

3. Noun. bottlenose skate. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bottlenose

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Literary usage of Bottlenose

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Lubrication and Lubricants: A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of by Richard Mountford Deeley, Leonard Archbutt (1900)
"Arctic sperm or bottlenose oil is obtained from the much smaller bottlenose ... Neither sperm nor bottlenose oils contain glycerides ; they consist entirely ..."

2. A Voyage to the Arctic in the Whaler Aurora by David Moore Lindsay (1911)
"CHAPTER VH THE bottlenose FISHING " The Arctic sun rose broad above the wave, The breeze now sank, now whispered from his cave. ..."

3. Commercial Organic Analysis by Alfred Henry Allen, Wm. A. Davis (1910)
"or bottlenose whale (Hyperoodon rostratum),1 which is known in commerce as "Arctic sperm oil." bottlenose oil deposits more or less spermaceti when cooled, ..."

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