spinner dolphin

English

A spinner dolphin

Wikispecies

Noun

spinner dolphin (plural spinner dolphins)

1. A species of small dolphin (Stenella longirostris).
   • 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, 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
• Spanish: delfín girador m, delfín acróbata de hocico largo m