Definitions
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- noun   The fertile hybrid produced by cross-breeding a 
bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus (mother), and afalse killer whale Pseudorca crassidens (father). 
Etymologies
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Incidentally, a wholphin is a hybrid marine mammal, formed when a 2,000-pound false killer whale impregnates a 400-pound female bottlenose dolphin.
Does Society Matter? Ask Existential Arbiter David Patrick Columbia 2006
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Incidentally, a wholphin is a hybrid marine mammal, formed when a 2,000-pound false killer whale impregnates a 400-pound female bottlenose dolphin.
Does Society Matter? Ask Existential Arbiter David Patrick Columbia 2006
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Incidentally, a wholphin is a hybrid marine mammal, formed when a 2,000-pound false killer whale impregnates a 400-pound female bottlenose dolphin.
Does Society Matter? Ask Existential Arbiter David Patrick Columbia 2006
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Incidentally, a wholphin is a hybrid marine mammal, formed when a 2,000-pound false killer whale impregnates a 400-pound female bottlenose dolphin.
Does Society Matter? Ask Existential Arbiter David Patrick Columbia 2006
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Boing Boing 2008
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That's because the only known whale-dolphin mixture has given birth to a baby wholphin.
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The wholphin, who has not yet been named, is 1/4 false killer whale and 3/4 bottlenose dolphin.
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One of the world's leading and only wholphin experts, Dr. Renato Lenzi, explains the significance of the calf: "As the only living product of a wholphin, we are given a special and unique scientific and educational opportunity."
Archive 2005-04-01 Michelle Collins 2005
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As strange as it is, the wholphin has company in the cross-breeding business.
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The offspring of a whale and a dolphin is a wholphin.
Media Newswire media-newswire.com 2010
 
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