as in nose
the part of the face bearing the nostrils and nasal cavity
dogs and their owners must grow to resemble one another, as that man and his basset hound have remarkably similar snouts
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Traits such as a receding chin, strongly projecting snout, low and sloping forehead, and very small brain size placed Lucy in the genus Australopithecus.
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Donald C. Johanson, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2024
Lowland tapirs grazing on the riverbank, their long, flexible snouts half-buried in the grass.
—Rebecca Shaw, TIME, 9 Oct. 2024
With a crouching stance and an audacious snout that echoes the familiar form of the great Daytona from the late 1960s and early ’70s, the 12Cilindri achieves an inscrutable balance between classic and modern.
—Basem Wasef, Robb Report, 20 Sep. 2024
Video footage from the scene of the arrest shows an officer pulling the gator from the pool from its tail and attempting to lock it down by holding its snout.
—Saman Shafiq, USA TODAY, 7 Aug. 2024
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Donald C. Johanson, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2024
Lowland tapirs grazing on the riverbank, their long, flexible snouts half-buried in the grass.
—Rebecca Shaw, TIME, 9 Oct. 2024
With a crouching stance and an audacious snout that echoes the familiar form of the great Daytona from the late 1960s and early ’70s, the 12Cilindri achieves an inscrutable balance between classic and modern.
—Basem Wasef, Robb Report, 20 Sep. 2024
Video footage from the scene of the arrest shows an officer pulling the gator from the pool from its tail and attempting to lock it down by holding its snout.
—Saman Shafiq, USA TODAY, 7 Aug. 2024
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“Snout.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snout. Accessed 17 Dec. 2024.
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