bottlenose

[bot-l-nohz]

bot·tle·nose

[bot-l-nohz]

Origin:
1540–50; bottle1 + nose

bot·tle-nosed, bot·tle·nosed, adjective
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Bottlenose is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
WordNet
bottlenose

noun
1. any of several dolphins with rounded forehead and well-developed beak; chiefly of northern Atlantic and Mediterranean [syn: bottlenose dolphin
2. northern Atlantic beaked whale with a bulbous forehead [syn: bottle-nosed whale
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