bottlenose

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

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bottlenose (plural bottlenoses)

1. bottlenose dolphin.
2. bottlenose whale.
3. bottlenose skate.
4. The beak or rostrum of a dolphin.
   • (Can we date this quote?), K A Applegate, The Message:

     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.

   • 2014 June 9, “Utah Toddler Killed By Dolphin In San Francisco”, in The Count‎^[1]:

     The dolphin’s bottlenose struck the boy causing fatal internal injuries.

   • 2019, Jay P Newcomb, Visigothic: The Legendary Journeys‎^[2]:

     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."

   • 2016 September 24, “‘Challenger’ chronicles a son’s journey through mental illness”, in Statesman‎^[3]:

     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.