bottle-nosed dolphin(n = noun.animal) bottlenose, bottlenose dolphin - any of several dolphins with rounded forehead and well-developed beak; chiefly of northern Atlantic and Mediterranean;
is a kind of dolphin
is a member of genus tursiops, tursiops
has particulars: atlantic bottlenose dolphin, tursiops truncatus, pacific bottlenose dolphin, tursiops gilli

1.  A grey cetacean of the Dolphin family, of several species, as Delphinus Tursio and Lagenorhyncus leucopleurus, of Europe.
"Also Tursiops truncatus -- a synonym?" [1913 Webster]

2.  The puffin. [1913 Webster]

3.  a north Atlantic beaked whale with a bulbous forehead. [WordNet 1.5]

atlantic bottlenose dolphin, bottle-nosed, bottle-nosed whale, bottlenose dolphin, common dolphin, dolphin, dolphin kick, dolphin oil, dolphin striker, pacific bottlenose dolphin, river dolphin