snout
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- n a long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head; especially the nose
- n informal terms for the nose
- n beaklike projection of the anterior part of the head of certain insects such as e.g. weevils
- Still, it often takes a real brain to differentiate terms in context: the word trunk can refer to a suitcase, a car hatch or an elephant's snout, for example.
- Just when you thought it was safe to rent a DVD, what pops its snout up? Jaws, back again, in a spiffed-up digital package.
- The result was one of the most curiously proportioned cars ever, with a long low snout, long front overhang and a truncated tail, like the tail snapped off a salamander.