bot·tle·nose

[bot-l-nohz]

Origin:
1540–50; bottle1 + nose

bot·tle-nosed, bot·tle·nosed, adjective
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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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Bottlenose is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
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.
Example sentences
On the trip, watch for turtles, bottlenose dolphins and manta rays.
Print detailed illustrations of bottlenose dolphins and other animals to color
  or use in school projects.
While sleeping, the bottlenose dolphin shuts down only half of its brain, along
  with the opposite eye.
Other wildlife that can be observed at the center include bottlenose dolphins,
  mullet, brown pelicans and terns.
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