LONG-SNOUTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does long-snouted mean? 

• LONG-SNOUTED (adjective)
  The adjective LONG-SNOUTED has 1 sense:

1. having a snout that is longer than average

  Familiarity information: LONG-SNOUTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LONG-SNOUTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having a snout that is longer than average

Similar:

long (primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified)

 Context examples 

Studies of women and babies accounted for several more pages, and then there was an unbroken series of animal drawings with such explanations as Manatee upon Sandbank, Turtles and Their Eggs, Black Ajouti under a Miriti Palm—the matter disclosing some sort of pig-like animal; and finally came a double page of studies of long-snouted and very unpleasant saurians.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Fossils found on the expeditions indicate that the sea supported some of the largest sea snakes and catfish that ever lived, extinct fishes that were giants compared to their modern-day relatives, mollusk-crushing fishes, tropical invertebrates, long-snouted crocodilians, early mammals and mangrove forests, said O’Leary.

(Ancient Saharan seaway illustrates how Earth’s climate and creatures can undergo extreme change, National Science Foundation)