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dolphinet en · NOUN

Etymology

From dolphin + -et.

Meanings

1. (rare) A female dolphin.
   • A Dolphin^([sic]) and Dolphinet^([sic]) are man and wife, do not forget! 1997, Joan Last, “Dolphins”, in Noah's Scrapbook, London: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 5:
   • The lyon chose his mate, the turtle dove / Her deare, the dolphin his owne dolphinet 1595, Ed. Spencer [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “Colin Clouts Come Home Againe”, in Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, London: […] T[homas] C[reede] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
   • Moore happened to visit New Zealand while the dolphinet known as Opo was playing with the bathers and children at Opononi, north of Auckland. 1961 [1960], Antony Alpers, “Foreword”, in Dolphins: The Myth and the Mammal, fourth printing (hardback), Cambridge: The Riverside Press, page vii:

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Synonyms

cow