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# bottlenose

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

«bottlenose» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. The bottlenose dolphin, a common grey dolphin with a short, bottle-shaped snout, often seen near coasts and in shows. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bottlenose/#m1)
2. A bottlenose whale, a kind of deep-diving whale. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bottlenose/#m2)

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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «bottlenose» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bottlenose/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«bottlenose» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/bottlenose.html) on Mova free.