spinner dolphin

English

Noun

spinner dolphin (plural spinner dolphins)

A species of small dolphin, Stenella longirostris.
- 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, 2013 edition, Granta Books, 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

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