wholphin
English
Alternative forms
- wolphin
Etymology
Blend of whale + dolphin[1]
Noun
wholphin (plural wholphins)
- The fertile hybrid produced by cross-breeding a bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus (mother), and a false killer whale Pseudorca crassidens (father).
References
- wholphin at OneLook Dictionary Search
- 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, Uchitel Publishing House, →ISBN, pages 220–225