Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun dolphin

2 senses of dolphin

Sense 1
dolphinfish, dolphin, mahimahi -- (large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (especially around Hawaii))
       => percoid fish, percoid, percoidean -- (any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes)

Sense 2
dolphin -- (any of various small toothed whales with a beaklike snout; larger than porpoises)
       => toothed whale -- (any of several whales having simple conical teeth and feeding on fish etc.)