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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Recent Examples of snout
The ancient reptile’s nostrils were positioned on top of the snout for surface breathing.
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Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 27 Oct. 2025
Edmontosaurs were probably pretty striking to look at with a long, low skull and one of the most prominent duck-bill snouts of any hadrosaur.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 23 Oct. 2025
Look above Scheat for two fainter stars that outline the rest of the neck and another relatively faint star to the lower right of the neck that marks the flying horse’s snout.
—Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 19 Oct. 2025
How To Identify Moles Moles are small with black or gray fur, a hairless snout, short tails, and front paws that look like shovels.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 17 Oct. 2025
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Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 27 Oct. 2025
Edmontosaurs were probably pretty striking to look at with a long, low skull and one of the most prominent duck-bill snouts of any hadrosaur.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 23 Oct. 2025
Look above Scheat for two fainter stars that outline the rest of the neck and another relatively faint star to the lower right of the neck that marks the flying horse’s snout.
—Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 19 Oct. 2025
How To Identify Moles Moles are small with black or gray fur, a hairless snout, short tails, and front paws that look like shovels.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 17 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for snout
nose
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Sacramento Kings center Domantas Sabonis and Milwaukee Bucks forward Bobby Portis went nose-to-nose during a first-quarter confrontation Saturday at Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee.—
Jason Anderson,
Sacbee.com,
2 Nov. 2025
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The team has not announced the nature of his injury yet, but his nose certainly looked broken.—
Jon Krawczynski,
New York Times,
2 Nov. 2025
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“Snout.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snout. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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