Word Finder - snout

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The long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast, as of pigs.

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The pig rooted around in the dirt with its snout.

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The front of the prow of a ship or boat.

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A person's nose.

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His glasses kept slipping further down onto his prominent snout.

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The nozzle of a pipe, hose, etc.

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If you place the snout right into the bucket, it won't spray as much.

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The anterior prolongation of the head of a gastropod; a rostrum.

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The anterior prolongation of the head of weevils and allied beetles; a rostrum.

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Tobacco; cigarettes.

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The terminus of a glacier.

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A police informer.

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A butterfly in the nymphalid subfamily Libytheinae, notable for the snout-like elongation on their heads.

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To furnish with a nozzle or point.

That's right, hit him on the snout--on his snout!

The snout is long, and the upper jaw longer than the lower.

The pointed snout extends beyond the lower jaw.

Leopards and bears are numerous; and the sand-badger, the Arctonyx collaris of Cuvier, a small animal somewhat resembling a bear, but having the snout, eyes and tail of a hog, is found.

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

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.

When used to hunt rabbits it is provided with a muzzle, or, better and more usual, a cope, made by looping and knotting twine about the head and snout, in order to prevent it killing its quarry, in which case it would gorge itself and go to sleep in the hole.

A peculiarly wedge-shaped snout, and toes provided with strong fringes, enable this animal to burrow rapidly in and under the sand of the desert.

C. cataphractus is the common crocodile of West Africa, easily recognised by the slender snout which resembles that of the gavial, but the mandibular symphysis does not reach beyond the eighth tooth.

These are adorable little fish, very boxy with a snout and orange and black stripes.

Like a gold ring in a pig's snout is a beautiful woman without discretion.

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.

Snout mostly triangular or rounded off.

One of the hoverflies had an upturned snout indicating the genus Rhingia.

It is distinguished from other species of the genus Gadus by its long pointed snout, which is twice as long as the eye, with projecting lower jaw, and without a barbel at the chin.

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.

Head and snout of the female, magnified.

They are easily recognized by their long body and tail, and elongated, upturned snout; from which last feature the Germans call them Rihsselbdren or "snouted bears."

The anteater's snout might be different in shape but has the SAM 3 on's.

A typical Tamworth has the longest snout of the present day domestic breeds.

They have a large, broad head and a protruding snout.

The sea dragon's face resembled a fan, its features radiating from its pointed snout.

Whirling through the water like a barrel comes a rotund ciliate which appears to have a long, narrow snout or nose.

They do not have a tail fin and cannot really be mistaken for anything else, if only because of their short snub snout.

The snout is frequently malformed, giving the head of the fish an appearance similar to that of a bull-dog.

Take this and this!' and I hit him so pat, stwaight on his snout...

The anteater 's snout might be different in shape but has the sam 3 on 's.

There is an area of bare pink skin on the snout that is very sensitive to touch.

Passing the snout of the Khumbu Glacier, we reach a line of memorials to Sherpas who have died on Everest.

A long snout butterfly fish has come up from the depths to make the back seat of the plane its home.

Few will be unmoved when a badger pauses, with a paw half cocked, and raises its snout in the air.

At the next station you may get a good view of the snout of a glacier.

The creatures also have a short horn on the tip of the snout.

His bare skin was blotchy and a prominent row of warts ran down his snout.

She has a long snout like a Collie, but looks kind of like a Pitbull in the face.

Although it wraps around the dog's snout, it is not a muzzle.

They have a distinctive upright form, with their head topped with a large snout shape and their tail curling under their body.

A large bear snout appeared through the tear, and then the entire head.

The animal appeared to be some sort of hairless canine, but as it briefly turned its head to the side to look behind, the snout appeared to be out of proportion for a dog or coyote.

The Scolytidae, or bark-beetles, are a family of some 1500 species, closely allied to the Curculionidae, differing only in the feeble development of the snout.

F, Acrecbolic (= pleurembolic) introvert, formed by the snout of the proboscidiferous Gastropod.

G, The acrecbolic snout of a proboscidiferous Gastropod, arrested short of complete eversion by the fibrous band b.

The head is seen in front resting on the foot and carrying a median non-retractile snout or rostrum, and a pair of cephalic tentacles at the base of each of which is an eye.

The head is rounded in front, and differs from that of dolphins in not having the snout produced into a distinct "beak" separated from the forehead by a groove.

The projecting feature above the mouth, to which the word is usually restricted in man, is, in the case of the lower animals, called snout or muzzle, or, if much prolonged, proboscis or trunk.

In some of the species the elongate form of the head is still more exaggerated by a pointed flexible appendage of the snout (Passerita), which may be nearly half an inch in length, or leaf-like, as in the Madagascar Langaha.

Herpeton of Cambodia has a pair of long tentacles on the snout and is said to have a partly vegetable diet!

It issues as a torrent, at the height of 5909 ft., from the great Rhone glacier at the head of the Valais, the recent retreat of this glacier having proved that the river really flows from beneath it, and does not take its rise from the warm springs that are now at some distance from its shrunken snout.

Especially in alligators the upper teeth overlap laterally those of the lower jaw, whilst in most crocodiles the overlapping is less marked and the teeth mostly interlock, a feature which increases with the slenderness of the snout.