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Nostril :: Nostril (n.) Perception; insight; acuteness.

Nosethril :: Nosethril (n.) Nostril.

Fossa :: Fossa (n.) A pit, groove, cavity, or depression, of greater or less depth; as, the temporal fossa on the side of the skull; the nasal fossae containing the nostrils in most birds..

Pervious :: Pervious (a.) Open; -- used synonymously with perforate, as applied to the nostrils or birds..

Tubinares :: Tubinares (n. pl.) A tribe of sea birds comprising the petrels, shearwaters, albatrosses, hagdons, and allied birds having tubular horny nostrils..

Pomarine :: Pomarine (a.) Having the nostril covered with a scale.

Narine :: Narine (a.) Of or belonging to the nostrils.

Dipnoi :: Dipnoi (n. pl.) A group of ganoid fishes, including the living genera Ceratodus and Lepidosiren, which present the closest approximation to the Amphibia. The air bladder acts as a lung, and the nostrils open inside the mouth. See Ceratodus, and Illustration in Appendix..

Scizorhinal :: Scizorhinal (a.) Having the anterior nostrils prolonged backward in the form of a slit.

Strepsorhine :: Strepsorhine (a.) Having twisted nostrils; -- said of the lemurs.

Pip :: Pip (n.) A contagious disease of fowls, characterized by hoarseness, discharge from the nostrils and eyes, and an accumulation of mucus in the mouth, forming a scale on the tongue. By some the term pip is restricted to this last symptom, the disease being called roup by them..

Stahlian :: Stagworm (n.) The larve of any species of botfly which is parasitic upon the stag, as /strus, or Hypoderma, actaeon, which burrows beneath the skin, and Cephalomyia auribarbis, which lives in the nostrils..

Vomer :: Vomer (n.) A bone, or one of a pair of bones, beneath the ethmoid region of the skull, forming a part a part of the partition between the nostrils in man and other mammals..

Phyllorhine :: Phyllorhine (a.) Of or pertaining to Phyllorhina and other related genera of bats that have a leaflike membrane around the nostrils.

Catarrhine :: Catarrhine (n.) One of the Catarrhina, a division of Quadrumana, including the Old World monkeys and apes which have the nostrils close together and turned downward. See Monkey..

Vibrissa :: Vibrissa (n.) One of the specialized or tactile hairs which grow about the nostrils, or on other parts of the face, in many animals, as the so-called whiskers of the cat, and the hairs of the nostrils of man..

Siphorhinal :: Siphorhinal (a.) Having tubular nostrils, as the petrels..

Thrill :: Thrill (v. t.) A breathing place or hole; a nostril, as of a bird..

Ozena :: Ozena (n.) A discharge of fetid matter from the nostril, particularly if associated with ulceration of the soft parts and disease of the bones of the nose..

Nare :: Nare (n.) A nostril.

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