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# bottlenose

«bottlenose» in Mova's school dictionary: **The bottlenose dolphin, a common grey dolphin with a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a bottlenose, bottlenoses); adjective (bottlenose)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The bottlenose dolphin, a common grey dolphin with a short, bottle-shaped snout, often seen near coasts and in shows. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bottlenose/#m1)

2) A bottlenose whale, a kind of deep-diving whale. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bottlenose/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science and ocean lessons, bottlenose dolphins are clever mammals that use echolocation, whistle to each other and live in groups called pods. Phrases: bottlenose dolphin, a pod of bottlenoses.

### examples

- A pod of bottlenose dolphins swam beside our boat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bottlenose/#x1)
- Bottlenose dolphins use clicks to find fish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bottlenose/#x2)
- Each bottlenose has its own signature whistle, like a name. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bottlenose/#x3)
- Bottlenoses breathe air through a blowhole. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bottlenose/#x4)
- We saw bottlenose dolphins in Cardigan Bay. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bottlenose/#x5)
- The bottlenose leapt high out of the water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bottlenose/#x6)

### note

Mostly used before dolphin. Dolphins are mammals, not fish. Also spelled bottle-nose.

### In the corpora

- [A bottlenose dolphin has around 80 to 100 cone-shaped teeth, gets only one set for life, and swallows fish whole.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/27-dolphins-porpoises-and-seals/9/)
- [A bottlenose dolphin has its own whistle that works like a name, and its friends call it by copying that whistle.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/235-animal-minds-dolphins-names-orca-grandmothers-and-whale-songs/1/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bottlenose» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bottlenose/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.