Tursiops

noun

a genus of Delphinidae

• Syn: ↑genus Tursiops

• Hypernyms: ↑mammal genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Delphinidae, ↑family Delphinidae

• Member Meronyms: ↑bottlenose dolphin, ↑bottle-nosed dolphin, ↑bottlenose

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\\ˈtərsēˌäps\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Tursio, genus of dolphins (from Latin, a kind of dolphin, from Greek thyrsiōn, from thyrsos thyrsus) + -ops

: a genus of rather large heavy-bodied dolphins having a truncate beak and a dorsal fin shaped like a sickle