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Noun dolphin has 2 senses
  1. dolphinfish, dolphin, mahimahi - large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (especially around Hawaii)
    --1 is a kind of percoid fish, percoid, percoidean
    --1 is a member of Coryphaenidae, family Coryphaenidae
    --1 has parts: dolphinfish, mahimahi
    --1 has particulars: Coryphaena hippurus; Coryphaena equisetis
  2. dolphin - any of various small toothed whales with a beaklike snout; larger than porpoises
    --2 is a kind of     toothed whale
    --2 is a member of Delphinidae, family Delphinidae
    --2 has particulars:
     common dolphin, Delphinus delphis; bottlenose dolphin, bottle-nosed dolphin, bottlenose; porpoise; grampus, Grampus griseus; killer whale, killer, orca, grampus, sea wolf, Orcinus orca; pilot whale, black whale, common blackfish, blackfish, Globicephala melaena; river dolphin; white whale, beluga, Delphinapterus leucas
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