- bottlenose dolphin, bottle-nosed dolphin, bottlenose - any of several dolphins with rounded forehead and well-developed beak; chiefly of northern Atlantic and Mediterranean
--1 is a kind of dolphin
--1 is a member of Tursiops, genus Tursiops
--1 has particulars:Atlantic bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus; Pacific bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops gilli