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TURSIOPS

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A genus of Delphinidae

Synonyms:

genus Tursiops; Tursiops

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Tursiops" is a kind of...):

mammal genus (a genus of mammals)

Meronyms (members of "Tursiops"):

bottle-nosed dolphin; bottlenose; bottlenose dolphin (any of several dolphins with rounded forehead and well-developed beak; chiefly of northern Atlantic and Mediterranean)

Holonyms ("Tursiops" is a member of...):

Delphinidae; family Delphinidae (dolphins)

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