pink river dolphin

noun

variants or pink dolphin

: boto

Somewhere up the Amazon, a big pink river dolphin breaches the surface with a pneumatic venting of its blowhole, then glides off humpy and slow through the placid brown water.

—Richard Conniff, National Geographic, September 1996

Our skiff is backed up to a banana tree in the flooded Amazon River basin of Peru on this warm and sunny morning, and pink dolphins are putting on a show a few feet in front of us.

—Terri Colby, Chicago Tribune, 22 July 2012

Word History

First Known Use

1966, in the meaning defined above

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