snout
the part of an animal's head projecting forward and containing the nose and jaws; muzzle.
Entomology. an anterior prolongation of the head bearing the mouth parts, as in snout beetles.
anything that resembles or suggests an animal's snout in shape, function, etc.
a nozzle or spout.
a person's nose, especially when large or prominent.
Origin of snout
1Other words from snout
- snouted, adjective
- snoutless, adjective
- snoutlike, adjective
- un·snout·ed, adjective
Words Nearby snout
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How to use snout in a sentence
As the animal clung to the rocky bottom, it exhaled an air bubble on its snout and appeared to repeatedly suck the air in and out of the bubble.
It has a slender tapering snout and a large number of teeth.
Ancient creature revealed as lizard, not a teeny dinosaur | Carolyn Gramling | July 21, 2021 | Science News For StudentsThe lizard exhaled an air bubble around its snout as the animal clung to the rocky bottom.
A bubble of air lets some lizards breathe underwater | Sharon Oosthoek | July 14, 2021 | Science News For StudentsWhile underwater, all of these lizards carried a bubble of air around their snouts.
A bubble of air lets some lizards breathe underwater | Sharon Oosthoek | July 14, 2021 | Science News For StudentsTo get to the sugar cube, the mice just had to poke in their snouts and lick.
User experience is the difference between mediocre and next-level search marketing | Carolyn Lyden | June 16, 2021 | Search Engine Land
As his grizzled snout suggests, Orlando is 11 years old, which translates to 77 in dog years.
Strangers Rally to Help Blind Man Keep His Guide Dog | Michael Daly | December 19, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTHad the automatic snout poking through the steel grille of the rear of the cage.
Despite the speed of his dive, they were gaining on him, coming up fast; one snout that ended in a cupped depression was plain.
Astounding Stories, May, 1931 | VariousWith a roast apple in his snout, and a ribbon—a blue—no, a pink ribbon decorating his ornery little tail.
The Woman Gives | Owen JohnsonHe walks on all fours, and his length, from the snout to the origin of his tail, is about a foot and a half.
Buffon's Natural History. Volume IX (of 10) | Georges Louis Leclerc de BuffonAs I was dipping my tin mug into the lake, a huge snout suddenly rose, and very nearly caught my hand, as well as the mug.
In the Wilds of Florida | W.H.G. Kingston
British Dictionary definitions for snout
/ (snaʊt) /
the part of the head of a vertebrate, esp a mammal, consisting of the nose, jaws, and surrounding region, esp when elongated
the corresponding part of the head of such insects as weevils
anything projecting like a snout, such as a nozzle or the lower end of a glacier
slang a person's nose
Also called: snout moth a brownish noctuid moth, Hypena proboscidalis, that frequents nettles: named from the palps that project prominently from the head at rest
British slang a cigarette or tobacco
slang an informer
Origin of snout
1Derived forms of snout
- snouted, adjective
- snoutless, adjective
- snoutlike, adjective
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