dolphinet

plural dolphinets

1. rareA female dolphin.

   A Dolphin^([sic]) and Dolphinet^([sic]) are man and wife, do not forget!

   1997, Joan Last, “Dolphins”, in Noah's Scrapbook, London: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 5

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   The lyon chose his mate, the turtle dove / Her deare, the dolphin his owne dolphinet

   1595, Ed. Spencer [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “Colin Clouts Come Home Againe”, in Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, London: […] T[homas] C[reede] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

   Moore happened to visit New Zealand while the dolphinet known as Opo was playing with the bathers and children at Opononi, north of Auckland.

   1961 [1960], Antony Alpers, “Foreword”, in Dolphins: The Myth and the Mammal, fourth printing (hardback), Cambridge: The Riverside Press, page vii

   Synonyms: cow