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English
Etymology
bottle + nose. The creatures have a bottle-shaped nose.
Noun
bottlenose (plural bottlenoses)
- bottlenose dolphin.
- bottlenose whale.
- bottlenose skate.
- The beak or rostrum of a dolphin.
(Can we date this quote?), K A Applegate, The Message:I didn’t have a mirror, but I could guess how gross I looked. I had this huge, long bottlenose sticking out of my otherwise normal face. My skin was gray rubber. And when I felt behind me with my rapidly shriveling hands, I could feel the triangular blade of a dorsal fin rising out of my spine.
2014 June 9, “Utah Toddler Killed By Dolphin In San Francisco”, in The Count:The dolphin’s bottlenose struck the boy causing fatal internal injuries.
2019, Jay P Newcomb, Visigothic: The Legendary Journeys:Lilia leaned over the side and Merovinge rose up and touched her nose with the tip of her dolphin's bottlenose while Clovis said, "The water is quite pleasant folks."
2016 September 24, “‘Challenger’ chronicles a son’s journey through mental illness”, in Statesman:A dolphin might be thinking of ripping your heart out, or poking you to death with its bottlenose, the way it might do to a shark, but since it’s always smiling, you think it’s your friend.