Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having a broad flattened snout, bill, or head.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
shovel-headed .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Having a broad, flat nose.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having a
flattened beak orsnout .
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Examples
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With maybe a shovel-nosed snake once in a while, just for variety.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Shock Treatment Greg Cox 2010
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With maybe a shovel-nosed snake once in a while, just for variety.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Shock Treatment Greg Cox 2010
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With maybe a shovel-nosed snake once in a while, just for variety.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Shock Treatment Greg Cox 2010
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Several species, including the legless lizard, banded sand snake, and shovel-nosed snake, have small eyes, narrow heads, counter-sunk lower jaws, and very smooth scales — adaptations to swimming and breathing in loose sand.
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The three species of Middle-Asian shovel-nosed sturgeons (Pseudoscaphirhynchus kaufmanni, P. hermanni and P. fedtschenkoi) have been included in the Red Data Book of the USSR and the problem of their conservation is acute in all Central Asian countries.
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Even the wives and daughters of low tradesmen, who, like shovel-nosed sharks, prey upon the blubber of those uncouth whales of fortune, are infected with the same rage of displaying their importance; and the slightest indisposition serves them for a pretext to insist upon being conveyed to Bath, where they may hobble country-dances and cotillons among lordlings, squires, counsellors, and clergy.
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"That's a pretty bunch of shovel-nosed man-eaters, for you," remarked the mate.
The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old Florence Partello Stuart
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We flew like a shovel-nosed barge against tide, and reached Hamoaze on the evening of the third day.
A Sailor of King George Frederick Hoffman
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He was most kind and hospitable, and gave us another boat to replace the last of our shovel-nosed dugouts.
X. To the Amazon and Home; Zoological and Geographical Results of the Expedition 1914
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He was most kind and hospitable, and gave us another boat to replace the last of our shovel-nosed dugouts.
Through the Brazilian Wilderness Theodore Roosevelt 1888
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