spotted dolphin

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English

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Etymology

From spotted + dolphin.

Noun

spotted dolphin (plural spotted dolphins)

  1. Any of two species of dolphins of the genus Stenella.
    • 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 59:
      Spotted dolphins perform ‘genital buzzing’, in which an adult directs a rapid stream of low-pitched clicks at the genital area of another, usually a calf.
    1. Atlantic spotted dolphin (Stenella frontalis)
    2. pantropical spotted dolphin (Stenella attenuata)

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