Word Finder - nostrils

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Either of the two orifices located on the nose (or on the beak of a bird); used as a passage for air and other gases to travel the nasal passages.

A whiff of something dead assailed her nostrils, causing her stomach to turn.

Their nostrils are placed quite at the top of the snout.

Dean instinctively sniffed the air for the smell of cordite but his nostrils picked up only the scent of alcohol.

We'll do some service tomorrow, said he, sniffing its nostrils and kissing it.

A gorilla-like feature in "Johanna" is, however, the presence of large folds at the sides (ala) of the nostrils, which are absent in the typical chimpanzee, but in the gorilla extend down to the upper lip. Chimpanzees exhibit great docility in confinement, where, however, they seldom survive for any great length of time.

The space between the nostrils and the upper lip is covered with short close hair, as in sheep and goats, without any trace of the bare muzzle of oxen.

Among them are the small ears, elongated head, the presence of a deep groove alongside the nostrils, the small size of the thumb, and the great length of the arm, which reaches half-way down the shin-bone (tibia) in the erect posture.

Some of this dust was kneaded by the feet and wheels, while the rest rose and hung like a cloud over the troops, settling in eyes, ears, hair, and nostrils, and worst of all in the lungs of the men and beasts as they moved along that road.

The muzzle, legs and hoofs are white; the nostrils pink.

The Suidae include the Old World pigs (Suinae) and the American peccaries (Dicotylinae), and are characterized by the snout terminating in a fleshy disk-like expansion, in the midst of which are perforated the nostrils; while the toes are enclosed in sharp hoofs, of which the lateral ones do not touch the ground.

In addition to the absence of prehensile power in their tails, douroucoulis, also known as night-apes, are distinguished by their large eyes, the sockets of which occupy nearly the whole front of the upper part of the skull, the partition between the nostrils being in consequence narrower than usual.

The majority of these are large and heavilybuilt ruminants, with horns present in both sexes, the muzzle broad, moist and naked, the nostrils lateral, no face-glands, and a large dewlap often developed in the males; while the tail is long and generally tufted, although in one instance longhaired throughout.

More or less nearly related to the saiga is the chiru, Pantholops hodgsoni, of Tibet, characterized by the long upright black horns of the bucks, and the less convex nose, in which the nostrils open anteriorly instead of downwards.

Consequently the beast can lie submerged in the water, with only the nostrils exposed, and with the mouth open, and breathe without water entering the windpipe.

They are transparent leaf-like organisms and may often be found attached to the skin, mouth, nostrils or gills of fish; on the skin and bladder of Amphibia; and on those of certain Reptilia.

Their crania have a normal development; their cheek-bones are high; their noses prominent, with large nostrils; their lips straight; and they are marked by the absence of the auricular lobules.

The nostrils are placed on the top of the snout and can be closed whilst the animal is under water.

Acrochordus javanicus has no enlarged ventral shields; the flat, viperish-looking head is covered with small granules, with the eyes and nostrils well on the upper surface.

The head is large and laterally compressed with a blunt snout, nearly terminal nostrils and relatively small eyes.

The sheep-like saiga, Saiga tatarica, of the Kirghiz steppes stands apart from all other antelopes by its curiously puffed and trunk-like nose, which can be wrinkled up when the animal is feeding and has the nostrils opening downwards.

The most obvious feature the Apteryges afford is the presence of a back toe, while the extremely aborted condition of the wings, the position of the nostrils - almost at the tip of the maxilla - and the absence of an after-shaft in the feathers, are characters nearly as manifest, and others not less determinative, though more recondite, will be found on examination.

While hunting for its food the bird makes a continual sniffing sound through the nostrils, which are placed at the extremity of the upper mandible.

The head is mesati-cephalic, verging on brachycephalic in the case of many of the Dokpa; the hair is black and somewhat wavy; the eyes are usually of a clear brown, in some cases even hazel; the cheek-bones are high, but not so high as with the Mongols; the nose is thick, sometimes depressed at the root, in other cases prominent, even aquiline, though the nostrils are broad.

As in all Suidae the snout is truncated, and the nostrils are situated in its flat, expanded, disk-like termination.

The nostrils open obliquely at some distance from the end of the snout, and the head carries a crest of long hair.

The greatly elongated head is set on a short thick neck, and at the extremity of the snout is a disk in which the nostrils open.

The beak is hard, strong and deeply notched, the nostrils are prominent, and the gape is furnished with twelve long hairs on each side.

In Central and South America alligators are represented by five species of the genus Caiman, which differs from Alligator by the absence of a bony septum between the nostrils, and the ventral armour is composed of overlapping bony scutes, each of which is formed of two parts united by a suture.

The gases are conducted from the furnace to the combustion chamber E through the nostrils D D, and the secondary air is FIG.

The nose, which is well set between the eyes, should be short and broad with large open nostrils.

The smell of a familiar fruit becomes pungent in my nostrils.

Cut two round pieces of black felt and glue them on to create the nostrils.

Pay special attention not to get the peel into the nostrils or near the eyes.

The sterile scent tickled Brady's nostrils.

Her breathing was unsteady, the scent of her honey musk and sweat thick in his nostrils.

The head is long and somewhat narrow, the forehead broad and receding, with overhanging brows, the eyes sunken, large and black, the nose thick and very broad at the nostrils.

Polymitarcys virgo, which, though not found in England, occurs in many parts of Europe (and is common at Paris), emerges from the water soon after sunset, and continues for several hours in such myriads as to resemble snow showers, putting out lights, and causing inconvenience to man, and annoyance to horses by entering their nostrils.

He had some idea of settling down in Paris, and might perhaps have done so if mischief had not been the very breath of his nostrils.

The mode of blowing is peculiar, and requires some practice; an uninterrupted blast is kept up by the muscular action of the cheeks, while the ordinary respiration goes on through the nostrils.

The premaxillae are short and always enclose the nostrils.

They have white legs and faces and black nostrils.

Baboons are for the most part large terrestrial monkeys with short or medium-sized tails, and long naked dog-like muzzles, in the truncated extremity of which are pierced the nostrils.

This embraces the base of the epiglottis, and, except while swallowing food, shuts off all communication between the cavity of the mouth and the pharynx, respiration being, under ordinary circumstances, exclusively through the nostrils.

She rubbed each mule down with the burlap sack and wiped the nostrils of each mule with a dampened cloth before allowing herself a few swallows of tepid water.

An unfamiliar aroma greeted his nostrils as she poured broth, sharp with herbs, into the waiting bowls.

The tongue depressor is attached to the foal by elastoplast, taped round the foal's muzzle, just behind the nostrils.

Were they bringing the frankincense and the incense to make Christ an even sweeter savor to the nostrils of His heavenly Father?

Man bites dog With the scent of unpaid levy in its nostrils, the CITB can be a bit of a rottweiler.

He raised his eyebrows, then blew out a jet of air between flared nostrils.

It had a long jaw with 80 pointed teeth, it also had nostrils at the upper jaws tip.