Definition of snout

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Snout (n.) The anterior prolongation of the head of weevils and allied beetles.

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Ring :: Ring (v. t.) To fit with a ring or with rings, as the fingers, or a swine's snout..
Nozzle :: Nozzle (n.) The nose; the snout; hence, the projecting vent of anything; as, the nozzle of a bellows..
Inia :: Inia (n.) A South American freshwater dolphin (Inia Boliviensis). It is ten or twelve feet long, and has a hairy snout..
Alligator :: Alligator (n.) A large carnivorous reptile of the Crocodile family, peculiar to America. It has a shorter and broader snout than the crocodile, and the large teeth of the lower jaw shut into pits in the upper jaw, which has no marginal notches. Besides the common species of the southern United States, there are allied species in South America..
Rostrifera :: Rostrifera (n. pl.) A division of pectinibranchiate gastropods, having the head prolonged into a snout which is not retractile..
Wrote :: Wrote (v. i.) To root with the snout. See 1st Root.
Weevil :: Weevil (n.) Any one of numerous species of snout beetles, or Rhynchophora, in which the head is elongated and usually curved downward. Many of the species are very injurious to cultivated plants. The larvae of some of the species live in nuts, fruit, and grain by eating out the interior, as the plum weevil, or curculio, the nut weevils, and the grain weevil (see under Plum, Nut, and Grain). The larvae of other species bore under the bark and into the pith of trees and various other plants, as th
Snout :: Snout (n.) The long, projecting nose of a beast, as of swine..
Tubular :: Tubular (a.) Having the form of a tube, or pipe; consisting of a pipe; fistular; as, a tubular snout; a tubular calyx. Also, containing, or provided with, tubes..
Flutemouth :: Flutemouth (n.) A fish of the genus Aulostoma, having a much elongated tubular snout..
Snout :: Snout (n.) The nozzle of a pipe, hose, etc..
Snout :: Snout (n.) The anterior prolongation of the head of a gastropod; -- called also rostrum.
Calvessnout :: Calvessnout (n.) Snapdragon.
Teleosaurus :: Teleosaurus (n.) A genus of extinct crocodilian reptiles of the Jurassic period, having a long and slender snout..
Muzzle :: Muzzle (v. i.) The projecting mouth and nose of a quadruped, as of a horse; a snout..
Whipparee :: Whipparee (n.) A large sting ray (Rhinoptera bonasus, or R. quadriloba) of the Atlantic coast of the United States. Its snout appears to be four-lobed when viewed in front, whence it is also called cow-nosed ray..
Sawfish :: Sawfish (n.) Any one of several species of elasmobranch fishes of the genus Pristis. They have a sharklike form, but are more nearly allied to the rays. The flattened and much elongated snout has a row of stout toothlike structures inserted along each edge, forming a sawlike organ with which it mutilates or kills its prey..
Snout :: Snout (n.) The anterior prolongation of the head of weevils and allied beetles.
Proboscis :: Proboscis (n.) A hollow organ or tube attached to the head, or connected with the mouth, of various animals, and generally used in taking food or drink; a snout; a trunk..
Porpoise :: Porpoise (n.) Any small cetacean of the genus Phocaena, especially P. communis, or P. phocaena, of Europe, and the closely allied American species (P. Americana). The color is dusky or blackish above, paler beneath. They are closely allied to the dolphins, but have a shorter snout. Called also harbor porpoise, herring hag, puffing pig, and snuffer..
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