Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bottlenose

/ˈbɒtəlnəʊz/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 2.37 in modern English

Syllables: bot-tlenose
IPA: /ˈbɒtəlnəʊz/

12

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

bottlenose dolphin.

noun

bottlenose whale.

noun

bottlenose skate.

noun

The beak or rostrum of a dolphin.

Example Sentences

"I didn’t have a mirror, but I could guess how gross I looked. I had this huge, long bottlenose sticking out of my otherwise normal face. My skin was gray rubber. And when I felt behind me with my rapidly shriveling hands, I could feel the triangular blade of a dorsal fin rising out of my spine."
"The dolphin’s bottlenose struck the boy causing fatal internal injuries."
"Lilia leaned over the side and Merovinge rose up and touched her nose with the tip of her dolphin's bottlenose while Clovis said, "The water is quite pleasant folks.""
"A dolphin might be thinking of ripping your heart out, or poking you to death with its bottlenose, the way it might do to a shark, but since it’s always smiling, you think it’s your friend."

Etymology

From bottle + nose. The creatures have a bottle-shaped nose.

Inflected Forms

bottlenoses (plural)

Synonyms

bottle-nosed whale bottlenose whale hyperoodon ampullatus bottlenose dolphin bottle-nosed dolphin

Questions

How do you pronounce bottlenose?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈbɒtəlnəʊz/.
What does bottlenose mean?: bottlenose dolphin.
Where does bottlenose come from?: From bottle + nose. The creatures have a bottle-shaped nose.

How to pronounce bottlenose

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