snout
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The viper, which has two hornlike projections on its snout, feeds mainly on rodents and ground-dwelling birds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
Now Nasa is working around that problem using the X-59's elongated snout to flatten supersonic booms into tolerable bumps in the background.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
According to Yale paleontologists, Eosphorosuchus lacrimosa had a short snout, a heavily reinforced skull, and enlarged jaw muscles suited for snapping shut on large prey.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 30, 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
The manatee raised its fat snout out of the water to breathe and sniff at her, and Natalie felt a sudden kinship with it.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
In this alternate universe, beautiful people have pig snouts, distorted mouths, and sagging cheeks.
From Slate ● Sep. 2, 2026
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
Giant anteaters have black and white diagonal stripes, dense shaggy hair and super-sized snouts.
From BBC ● Apr. 1, 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
In a trice they were back, moist snouts poking from the excavation.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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