Dolphin (Noun)

Meaning ¹

Large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (especially around Hawaii).

Classification

Nouns denoting animals.

Synonyms

• Dolphinfish
• Mahimahi

Hypernyms

• Percoidean
• Percoid Fish

Hyponyms

• Coryphaena Equisetis
• Coryphaena Hippurus

Meaning ²

Any of various small toothed whales with a beaklike snout; larger than porpoises.

Classification

Nouns denoting animals.

Hyponyms

• Delphinus Delphis
• Blackfish
• Sea Wolf
• Delphinapterus Leucas
• Common Blackfish
• Grampus Griseus
• Beluga
• Grampus
• Orca
• Black Whale
• Killer
• Bottlenose
• Globicephala Melaena
• Bottle-nosed Dolphin
• Orcinus Orca