dolphin
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Large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (especially around Hawaii) (synset 102584588)
domain region: aloha state, haw., hawai'i, hawaii, hi - a state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islandsis a type of: percoid, percoid fish, percoidean - any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformessubtypes:
- coryphaena hippurus - the more common dolphinfish valued as food; about six feet long
- coryphaena equisetis - a kind of dolphinfish
belongs to: coryphaenidae, family coryphaenidae - large active pelagic percoid fishhas: dolphinfish, mahimahi - the lean flesh of a saltwater fish found in warm waters (especially in Hawaii)same as: dolphinfish, mahimahi -
Any of various small toothed whales with a beaklike snout;
Larger than porpoises (synset 102071627)is a type of: toothed whale - any of several whales having simple conical teeth and feeding on fish etc.subtypes:- common dolphin, delphinus delphis - black-and-white dolphin that leaps high out of the water
- bottle-nosed dolphin, bottlenose, bottlenose dolphin - any of several dolphins with rounded forehead and well-developed beak; chiefly of northern Atlantic and Mediterranean
- porpoise - any of several small gregarious cetacean mammals having a blunt snout and many teeth
- grampus, grampus griseus - slaty-grey blunt-nosed dolphin common in northern seas
- grampus, killer, killer whale, orca, orcinus orca, sea wolf - predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seas
- black whale, blackfish, common blackfish, globicephala melaena, pilot whale - small dark-colored whale of the Atlantic coast of the United States; the largest male acts as pilot or leader for the school
- river dolphin - any of several long-snouted usually freshwater dolphins of South America and southern Asia
- beluga, delphinapterus leucas, white whale - small northern whale that is white when adult
belongs to: delphinidae, family delphinidae - dolphins
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