dolphin
dol fuhn
- n large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (especially around Hawaii)
- n any of various small toothed whales with a beaklike snout; larger than porpoises
- September heralds the six-month dolphin-hunting season in Taiji, a small seaside town in Japan's southwestern Wakayama prefecture.
- Lionsgate Courtesy Everett Collection Earlier this week, the town decided to release 70 of the roughly 100 dolphins from the previous week's catch.
- The TV series Flipper helped create a demand for trained dolphins.