dolphin
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (especially around Hawaii)
Types & categories
- percoid fish hypernym
- Coryphaena hippurus hyponym
- Coryphaena equisetis hyponym
Parts & wholes
- Coryphaenidae member holonym
- dolphinfish part meronym
Related & opposite
- Hawaii domain region
Sense 2 noun
any of various small toothed whales with a beaklike snout; larger than porpoises
Types & categories
- toothed whale hypernym
- common dolphin hyponym
- bottlenose hyponym
- porpoise hyponym
- Grampus griseus hyponym
- grampus hyponym
- black whale hyponym
- river dolphin hyponym
- white whale hyponym
Parts & wholes
- Delphinidae member holonym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | domain region | Related & opposite | Hawaii |
| 1 | member holonym | Parts & wholes | Coryphaenidae |
| 1 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | dolphinfish |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | percoid fish |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | Coryphaena hippurus |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | Coryphaena equisetis |
| 2 | member holonym | Parts & wholes | Delphinidae |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | toothed whale |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | common dolphin |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | bottlenose |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | porpoise |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | Grampus griseus |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | grampus |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | black whale |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | river dolphin |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | white whale |