wholphin

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Blend of whale +‎ dolphin[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

wholphin (plural wholphins)

  1. The fertile hybrid produced by cross-breeding a bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus (mother), and a false killer whale Pseudorca crassidens (father).

References

  • “wholphin”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
  1. ^ Olga Kornienko, Grinin L, Ilyin I, Herrmann P, Korotayev A (2016) “Social and Economic Background of Blending”, in Globalistics and Globalization Studies: Global Transformations and Global Future‎[1], Volgograd: Uchitel Publishing House, →ISBN, pages 220–225
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