Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word SNOUT

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Definitions of SNOUT

1. The long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast, as of pigs.
2. The nozzle of a pipe, hose, etc.
3. The anterior prolongation of the head of a gastropod; a rostrum.
4. The anterior prolongation of the head of weevils and allied beetles; a rostrum.
5. The terminus of a glacier.
6. To furnish with a nozzle or point.
7. The front of the prow of a ship or boat. [First attested in 1387.]
8. (derogatory) A person's nose.
9. (British, slang) Tobacco; cigarettes.
10. (slang) A police informer.
11. A butterfly in the nymphalid subfamily Libytheinae, notable for the snout-like elongation on their heads.

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Examples of Using SNOUT in a Sentence

• They have a flattened skull; upright, triangular ears; a pointed, slightly upturned snout; and a long, bushy tail ("brush").
• Characteristically, mice are known to have a pointed snout, small rounded ears, a body-length scaly tail, and a high breeding rate.
• Buccaporci ("Pig's snout") was neither his birth name nor the name of his family, but apparently a nickname given to him because of his personal habits.
• Velociraptor can be distinguished from other dromaeosaurids by its long and low skull, with an upturned snout.
• It is a stocky cetacean with a relatively blunt snout, a large melon, and a shallow ridge in place of a dorsal fin.
• He is characterized by a zoomorphic head, with large eyes, long, upturned snout and attenuated serpent foot.
• Muzzle (anatomy) or snout, the projecting parts of the face (including the nose and mouth) of an animal.
• Surveyors in the mid-nineteenth century noted a point that resembled a fox's snout jutting into Lake Michigan at the present location of Doctor's Park in the village.
• Marlins have elongated bodies, a spear-like snout or bill, and a long, rigid dorsal fin which extends forward to form a crest.
• It is characterised by a broad head, large eyes, a pointed snout, long legs, a thin tapering tail, and a brindled coat pattern.
• Taeniolabis is a member of the Taeniolabidoidea, a superfamily of multituberculates that are known for their highly derived teeth, and a short wide snout with a blocky head.
• All members of the order are endemic to Australia-New Guinea and most have the characteristic bandicoot shape: a plump, arch-backed body with a long, delicately tapering snout, very large upright ears, relatively long, thin legs, and a thin tail.
• The ringed seal is the smallest and most common seal in the Arctic, with a small head, short cat-like snout, and a plump body.
• Gavialids are generally regarded as lacking the jaw strength to capture the large mammalian prey favoured by crocodiles and alligators of similar size so their thin snout is best used to catch fish, however the false gharial has been found to have a generalist diet with mature adults preying upon larger vertebrates, such as ungulates.
• The American paddlefish is a smooth-skinned freshwater fish with an almost entirely cartilaginous skeleton and a paddle-shaped rostrum (snout), which extends nearly one-third its body length.
• A variant of bull-baiting was "pinning the bull", where specially-trained dogs would set upon the bull one at a time, a successful attack resulting in the dog fastening his teeth strongly in the bull's snout.
• Due to its relative abundance in European waters, it was among the first of the genus Lagenorhynchus (lagenos, Latin for "bottle" or "flask"; rhynchos, "beak" or "snout") to be known to science.
• In 1942, he completed his PhD with the dissertation On the structure of the snout of Crossopterygians and lower Gnathostomes in general.
• Its long snout is covered with ampullae of Lorenzini that enable it to sense minute electric fields produced by nearby prey, which it can snatch up by rapidly extending its jaws.
• Its long snout is covered with ampullae of Lorenzini that enable it to sense minute electric fields produced by nearby prey, which it can snatch up by rapidly extending its jaws.

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