Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to or having the characters of the Delphinidæ or Delphinoidea; like or likened to a dolphin.
- n. One of the Delphinidæ or Delphinoidea; a dolphin, porpoise, or any other living toothed cetacean not a cachalot.
Wiktionary
- adj. zoology Pertaining to, or resembling, the dolphin.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Zoöl.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the dolphin.
Etymologies
- Latin delphinus a dolphin + -oid. (Wiktionary)
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