spinner dolphin

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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’.

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