<p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>Any of several chiefly marine, cetacean mammals of the family Delphinidae, having a fishlike body, numerous teeth, and the front of the head elongated into a beaklike projection.</li><li>Also called dolphinfish, mahimahi.</li><li>Either of two large, slender fishes, Coryphaena hippurus or C. equisetis, of warm and temperate seas.</li><li>Nautical: A pile, cluster of piles, or buoy to which a vessel may be moored in open water.</li><li>A cluster of piles used as a fender, as at the entrance to a dock.</li><li>A pudding fender at the nose of a tugboat or on the side of a vessel.</li><li>Dolphin, Astronomy: The constellation Delphinus.</li></ul>