A small stout-bodied dolphin with a grey back and pinkish underparts, living along the coasts and rivers from Panama to Brazil and in the Amazon.
白海豚
Sotalia fluviatilis, family Delphinidae
Example sentencesExamples
But it is the face that is most arresting: compared with the tucuxi's neat, smooth head, the boto's bulbous forehead seems misshapen, like a troll's or a dwarf's.
In comparison, the tucuxi, one of the smallest dolphins, is about 5 feet long and 100 pounds.
A single tucuxi leapt into the air, spinning, then crashed into the water with a splash.
Mix altruism with hedonism for ten days by helping Brazilian scientists study the sensitive tucuxi dolphin off the lush island of Ilha do Cardoso, in the Cananéia Estuary, south of São Paulo.
Definition of tucuxi in US English:
tucuxi
nounto͝oˈko͞ohē
A small stout-bodied dolphin with a gray back and pinkish underparts, living along the coasts and rivers from Panama to Brazil and in the Amazon.
白海豚
Sotalia fluviatilis, family Delphinidae
Example sentencesExamples
A single tucuxi leapt into the air, spinning, then crashed into the water with a splash.
But it is the face that is most arresting: compared with the tucuxi's neat, smooth head, the boto's bulbous forehead seems misshapen, like a troll's or a dwarf's.
In comparison, the tucuxi, one of the smallest dolphins, is about 5 feet long and 100 pounds.
Mix altruism with hedonism for ten days by helping Brazilian scientists study the sensitive tucuxi dolphin off the lush island of Ilha do Cardoso, in the Cananéia Estuary, south of São Paulo.