boto

boto [boh-toh] Examples noun, plural bo·tos.

a freshwater South American dolphin, Inia geoffrensis, having a long snout and fluctuating in color between pink and gray: inhabits the Amazon and Orinoco river systems.

Also called Amazon dolphin. Examples from the Web for boto Historical Examples of boto

Boto, in his setting, sounds Goethe’s drama to greater depths than Gounod.

Gustav Kobb

Boto’s “Mefistofele” belongs of course to a subsequent period.

Arthur Hervey

The chief one is a votive picture commissioned by one Boto da Maraglia who had been taken prisoner by the French but released.

George C. Williamson

It appeared in Italia of the day after the performance, at which, it may be mentioned, Boto applauded vigorously from a box.

Wakeling Dry

These two, who may be linked up with reason with Boto and Ponchielli, present many features of resemblance.

Wakeling Dry