dolphin

[US]/ˈdɒlfɪn/
[UK]/ˈdɑːlfɪn/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. a smart marine mammal that often swims in the ocean

Phrases & Collocations

bottlenose dolphin

friendly dolphin

Example Sentences

dolphins are superb divers.

a dolphin breaking water.

the incidental catch of dolphins in the pursuit of tuna.

dolphins and other maritime mammals.

dolphin sounds are unintelligible to humans.

the huge dolphin tempesting the main

many dolphins die from entanglement in fishing nets.

The advert featured a dolphin swimming around a goldfish bowl.

dolphins can attain speeds in water which man cannot yet emulate.

dolphins and whales can't help taking in the odd gulp of brine as they swallow a fish.

Can you say that dolphins are much more intelligent than other animals?

The unicorns of the sea, Monodon monoceros are members of the order Cetacea, along with whales, dolphins and porpoises.

Shemsen breached like a shark-chased dolphin and gulped air like a drowning lubber.

that this bold metaphor is admirable, and the natural history of the stage has no occasion on a day of allegory and royal epithalamium to take exception at a dolphin who is son to a lion.

New methods of setting nets have reduced the bycatch of dolphins but not of other species, such as billfish, turtles and sharks.

Mari Sloan commented on Mari Sloan's photo ' Boy With Dolphin' ...Papillon Casse commented on EILEEN ...

BENJI AT MARINELAND follows the emotive pup underwater as he communes with barracudas, dolphins, fish, and assorted other sea friends.

Mussa Aboud Jumbe, Zanzibar's director of fisheries, went on state radio to warn the public against eating the dolphin meat, saying the cause of death had not been determined.

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