Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a bottle-shaped nose; having a nose full and swollen about the wings and end, or inflamed by drinking.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having the nose bottle-shaped, or large at the end.
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Examples
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Although she never speaks, she makes a gurgling sound, high-pitched like the bottle-nosed dolphins at the Aquarium.
Phantom Sister Linda Simoni-Wastila 2011
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Only a few of them, other than primates and elephants, are known to have the cells: humpback whales, sperm whales, fin whales, orcas and bottle-nosed dolphins.
Smithsonian - Brain Cells for Socializing William Harryman 2009
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Hayden Panettiere went to Japan to try and physically save some bottle-nosed dolphins from slaughter.
If Hayden Panettiere REALLY Wanted To Help Animals, She’d Pose Nude For PETA | Best Week Ever 2007
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The northern bottle-nosed whale, which is 16-18ft long and is usually found in deep sea waters, has passed Parliament and is moving upstream.
Valuing Life, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Marine mammals include bottle-nosed dolphin Tursiops truncatus, and Californian sea lion Zalophus californianus.
Isla del Coco Marine and Terrestrial Conservation Area, Costa Rica 2008
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Which of course is timely in view of the Northern bottle-nosed whale Hyperoodon ampullatus that just swam up the Thames.
Archive 2006-01-01 Darren Naish 2006
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ELAM (voice-over): Colleen Kelly jumped at the chance to see the 20 or so bottle-nosed dolphins that have been living in New Jersey Shrewsbury River for the last three weeks.
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He was like an encyclopedia entry: here were the humpback whales, and there the bottle-nosed, and the pilot and the beluga, the right whales and the blue.
Poor Devil 2005
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He was like an encyclopedia entry: here were the humpback whales, and there the bottle-nosed, and the pilot and the beluga, the right whales and the blue.
Poor Devil 2005
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To fill the void, a race of aliens offer intelligence first to the dolphins (they turn them down, bunch of bottle-nosed snobs!) and then next to gorillas (who gleefully accept).
Archive 2007-08-01 David S. Carter 2007
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