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Definition of Tursiops truncatus
1. Noun. The most common dolphin of northern Atlantic and Mediterranean; often kept captive and trained to perform.
Generic synonyms: Bottle-nosed Dolphin, Bottlenose, Bottlenose Dolphin
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tursiops Truncatus
Literary usage of Tursiops truncatus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Our commonest east coast porpoise (Tursiops truncatus) is not found in Greenland
waters, while the harbor porpoise ..."
2. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"Our commonest east coast porpoise (Tursiops truncatus) is not found in Greenland
waters, while the harbor porpoise ..."
3. International Catalogue of Scientific Literature by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1905)
"743 A note on the common bottlenosed porpoise of the North Atlantic, Tursiops
truncatus (Montagu). Philadelphia, Pa., Proc., Acad. Nat. ..."
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