dolphin
English Thesaurus
1. any of various small toothed whales with a beaklike snout; larger than porpoises (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | toothed whale, |
| definition | : | any of several whales having simple conical teeth and feeding on fish etc. (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | common dolphin, delphinus delphis, |
| definition | : | black-and-white dolphin that leaps high out of the water (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | bottle-nosed dolphin, bottlenose, bottlenose dolphin, |
| definition | : | any of several dolphins with rounded forehead and well-developed beak; chiefly of northern Atlantic and Mediterranean (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | porpoise, |
| definition | : | any of several small gregarious cetacean mammals having a blunt snout and many teeth (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | grampus, grampus griseus, |
| definition | : | slaty-grey blunt-nosed dolphin common in northern seas (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | grampus, killer, killer whale, orca, orcinus orca, sea wolf, |
| definition | : | predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seas (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | black whale, blackfish, common blackfish, globicephala melaena, pilot whale, |
| definition | : | small dark-colored whale of the Atlantic coast of the United States; the largest male acts as pilot or leader for the school (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | river dolphin, |
| definition | : | any of several long-snouted usually freshwater dolphins of South America and southern Asia (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | beluga, delphinapterus leucas, white whale, |
| definition | : | small northern whale that is white when adult (noun.animal) |
| member meronym | : | delphinidae, family delphinidae, |
| definition | : | dolphins (noun.animal) |
2. large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (especially around Hawaii) (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | percoid, percoid fish, percoidean, |
| definition | : | any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | coryphaena hippurus, |
| definition | : | the more common dolphinfish valued as food; about six feet long (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | coryphaena equisetis, |
| definition | : | a kind of dolphinfish (noun.animal) |
| part holonym | : | dolphinfish, mahimahi, |
| definition | : | the lean flesh of a saltwater fish found in warm waters (especially in Hawaii) (noun.food) |
| member meronym | : | coryphaenidae, family coryphaenidae, |
| definition | : | large active pelagic percoid fish (noun.animal) |
| domain region | : | aloha state, hawai'i, hawaii, hi, |
| definition | : | a state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islands (noun.location) |
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