snout
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"Males are the only pigs whose upper tusks erupt through the snout bone and curve back towards their face."
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Hidden in rivers and lakes, a massive crocodile with a distinctive hump on its snout likely posed one of the greatest dangers to these ancient hominins.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 13, 2026
One of the crocodile's most unusual features was a prominent hump located in the middle of its snout.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 13, 2026
It was slender, about 2 metres long, and it had a thin long snout specifically adapted for eating fish.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2026
I stand, stretch—first back, lowering my snout almost to the dirt, then forward, extending each of my legs and wiggling my toes.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
But that shows how keen they are to get their snouts in the trough of Musk’s future equity sales.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 10, 2026
The malleability of the dog genome allows for enormous physical variety, she explained, meaning that breeders can push features to extremes—squashing snouts, piling on wrinkles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
Instead, they swim sideways, spend much of their time underwater, have long snouts and are almost completely blind.
From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2025
They’re fairly tall, with snouts that are broader and ears that are rounder than the coyotes they’re often mistaken for.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 2024
The cows gazed at him with a sort of threatening idiotic placidity; the horses peered down their long snouts like curious, intelligent gods.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll, Chapters 4–6
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