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snout

/snout/US // snaʊt //UK // (snaʊt) //

鼻嘴,喙,鼻头,鼻口

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.

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Examples

  • 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.

  • The lizard exhaled an air bubble around its snout as the animal clung to the rocky bottom.

  • While underwater, all of these lizards carried a bubble of air around their snouts.

  • To get to the sugar cube, the mice just had to poke in their snouts and lick.

  • As his grizzled snout suggests, Orlando is 11 years old, which translates to 77 in dog years.

  • Had 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.

  • With a roast apple in his snout, and a ribbon—a blue—no, a pink ribbon decorating his ornery little tail.

  • He walks on all fours, and his length, from the snout to the origin of his tail, is about a foot and a half.

  • As 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.