spinner dolphin

English

A spinner dolphin

Noun

spinner dolphin (plural spinner dolphins)

A species of small dolphin (Stenella longirostris).
- 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 59:
  Spinner dolphins of both sexes sometimes engage in orgies of more than a dozen individuals, known as ‘wuzzles’.

Translations

species of dolphin

German: Spinnerdelfin m
Scottish Gaelic: muc-bhiorach f
Spanish: delfín girador m, delfín acróbata de hocico largo m

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