SNOUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does snout mean? 

• SNOUT (noun)
  The noun SNOUT has 3 senses:

1. a long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head; especially the nose

2. informal terms for the nose

3. beaklike projection of the anterior part of the head of certain insects such as e.g. weevils

  Familiarity information: SNOUT used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SNOUT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head; especially the nose

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

neb; snout

Hypernyms ("snout" is a kind of...):

nose; olfactory organ (the organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract; the prominent part of the face of man or other mammals)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "snout"):

proboscis; trunk (a long flexible snout as of an elephant)

Holonyms ("snout" is a part of...):

muzzle (forward projecting part of the head of certain animals; includes the jaws and nose)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Informal terms for the nose

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

beak; honker; hooter; nozzle; schnoz; schnozzle; snoot; snout

Hypernyms ("snout" is a kind of...):

nose; olfactory organ (the organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract; the prominent part of the face of man or other mammals)

Domain region:

America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Beaklike projection of the anterior part of the head of certain insects such as e.g. weevils

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

rostrum; snout

Hypernyms ("snout" is a kind of...):

nose; olfactory organ (the organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract; the prominent part of the face of man or other mammals)

 Context examples 

Prominent apical cytoplasmic snouts and intraluminal secretions are also present.

(Columnar Cell Hyperplasia of the Breast with Atypia, NCI Thesaurus)

Prominent apical cytoplasmic snouts are present.

(Columnar Cell Hyperplasia of the Breast, NCI Thesaurus)

Apical cytoplasmic snouts may be present, but they are not prominent.

(Columnar Cell Change of the Breast, NCI Thesaurus)

At roughly 30 inches long, it would have lacked the typical elongated shark's profile, instead having a stubby snout and large, forward-facing eyes.

(Ancient sharks likely more diverse than previously thought, National Science Foundation)

The Hanford pig is white with an elongated snout and has the largest heart and blood vessels of all pig breeds.

(Hanford Pig, NCI Thesaurus)

He, however, blinking with puckered eyes, reached up his kerchief, and flicked the beast twice across the snout with it.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The fog seemed to break away as though split by a wedge, and the bow of a steamboat emerged, trailing fog-wreaths on either side like seaweed on the snout of Leviathan.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I could see distinctly the limbs of these vermin with my naked eye, much better than those of a European louse through a microscope, and their snouts with which they rooted like swine.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I hate the sight of that sharp-pointed snout of his, which he wants to be ever poking into my affairs.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When the time comes I will describe that wondrous moonlit night upon the great lake when a young ichthyosaurus—a strange creature, half seal, half fish, to look at, with bone-covered eyes on each side of his snout, and a third eye fixed upon the top of his head—was entangled in an Indian net, and nearly upset our canoe before we towed it ashore; the same night that a green water-snake shot out from the rushes and carried off in its coils the steersman of Challenger's canoe.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)