Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or having the characters of the Delphinidæ or Delphinoidea; like or likened to a dolphin.
- noun One of the Delphinidæ or Delphinoidea; a dolphin, porpoise, or any other living toothed cetacean not a cachalot.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the dolphin.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective zoology Pertaining to, or resembling, the
dolphin .
Etymologies
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Latin delphinus a dolphin + -oid.
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