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[ US /ˈsnaʊt/ ]
[ UK /snˈa‍ʊt/ ]
NOUN
  1. informal terms for the nose
  2. beaklike projection of the anterior part of the head of certain insects such as e.g. weevils
  3. a long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head; especially the nose

How To Use snout In A Sentence

  • Dozens of deep scars and pits ran across the length its snout.
  • His fleshless snout made stunted attempts at movement while he spoke, though his speech was clear and articulated.
  • Its snouty head, patchy grey body and small pedal fins make the dwarf look more like a large dolphin than a baleen whale.
  • In place of teeth it has the well-known substance called whalebone, which grows from the roof of its mouth in a number of broad thin plates, extending from the back of the head to the snout. Fighting the Whales
  • His chin is almost recessing into his jaw and he has the trademark republican pig snout. Think Progress » Who Is Randy ‘Baby Killer’ Neugebauer?
  • Hippocampus severnsi is distinguished from congeners in having a combination of: extremely small size (height 13 mm, standard length 15 mm); 12 trunk rings; 27 tail rings; reduced ossification of inferior and ventral trunk ridges; 14 dorsal fin rays; 10 pectoral fin rays; anal fin small or absent; medium length snout which lacks a bulbous tip; raised, angular coronet; single gill opening on midline directly behind coronet supported by raised cleithral bone; scattered tubercles on trunk and tail; predominant colour dark brown (sometimes slightly marbled) with large, bright red patch covering dorsolateral surfaces of trunk rings 1-4; tiny white dots scattered all over; pale posterior section of tail with dark transverse bands. Practical Fishkeeping news (RSS)
  • And the tremendous skull of the great hog of Oakham hung, a portentous ivory overmantel, with a Chinese jar in either eye socket, snout down above the fire .... The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth
  • The door creaked open and a furred snout poked out.
  • She turned and saw the bay nudging his snout through the bars, eager for her strokes.
  • Once the snout contacted an ant larva or pupa, the snake would slide the ventral surface of its snout over the top of the prey until the prey item was positioned at or near the front of the mouth.
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