Meanings
nounspinner dolphin (plural spinner dolphins)
plural spinner dolphins
- A species of small dolphin (Stenella longirostris).
Spinner dolphins of both sexes sometimes engage in orgies of more than a dozen individuals, known as ‘wuzzles’.
2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 59
Synonyms & antonyms
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Translations
French dauphin à long bec
- dauphin à long becspecies of dolphin
German Spinnerdelfin
- Spinnerdelfinspecies of dolphin
Russian длинноры́лый продельфи́н, малоголо́вый продельфи́н
- длинноры́лый продельфи́н (dlinnorýlyj prodelʹfín)species of dolphin
- малоголо́вый продельфи́н (malogolóvyj prodelʹfín)species of dolphin
- вертя́щийся дельфи́н (vertjáščijsja delʹfín)species of dolphin
- длинноно́сый дельфи́н (dlinnonósyj delʹfín)species of dolphin
- длиноклю́вая стене́лла (dlinokljúvaja stenélla)species of dolphin
Scottish Gaelic muc-bhiorach
- muc-bhiorachspecies of dolphin
Spanish delfín girador, delfín acróbata de hocico largo
- delfín giradorspecies of dolphin
- delfín acróbata de hocico largospecies of dolphin
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Chicago
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