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aardvark |
a large mammal with a long snout, long ears, a long tail, and with long fur mostly around its legs. Aardvarks are active at night, when they use their powerful claws to dig open ant or termite nests. They catch their food with their long, sticky tongue. Aardvarks live in southern and central Africa. Although they are sometimes called anteaters, aardvarks are not closely related to any other kind of mammal. |
alligator |
a large reptile with short legs, a long body and tail, and a long, wide snout. Alligators are protected by thick skin with many hard bumps. They live in rivers, lakes, swamps, and other bodies of water in the southeast United States and in China. They usually eat insects, fish, turtles, snakes, birds, and other water animals, but have been known to attack small land mammals. They are closely related to crocodiles. Chinese alligators are endangered because their habitat is being changed by people. |
ant bear |
a large, toothless, ant-eating mammal with a long snout, a sticky, extendable tongue, and a long shaggy tail; great anteater. [1/2 definitions] |
babirusa |
a wild pig of the East Indies, the male of which has tusks that grow up through the snout and curve backward toward the eyes. |
baboon |
a large monkey that has a long snout like a dog's. Baboons live on the ground in large groups in Africa and Arabia. They can be powerful fighters. |
boll weevil |
a small beetle with a gray body and a long snout. It lays eggs in the seed pods of the cotton plant where they hatch and cause much damage to crops. |
bull nose |
a contagious disease in pigs caused by a bacterial infection and marked by a kind of swelling in the snout and mouth that destroys tissue. |
coati |
a small furry mammal with a long snout and a long ringed tail. Coatis are related to raccoons and live mainly in trees. They eat fruit and small animals such as lizards. They are found in Mexico, Central America, and South America. |
crocodile |
a large reptile that is found in tropical swamps. It has a thick, tough skin, a long tail, and a long, pointed snout. |
desman |
either of two molelike aquatic mammals found in eastern Europe and western Asia that feed on insects and have webbed feet and a long snout. |
dolphin |
a mammal that lives in the water. Dolphins look like large fish but they breathe air. They have teeth and a snout that looks like a beak. Most kinds of dolphins live in the ocean. A few kinds live in large rivers in Asia and South America. Dolphins are closely related to porpoises and other toothed whales. |
duck-billed |
of an animal, having a broad, flat snout shaped like a duck's bill. |
duck-billed dinosaur |
any dinosaur of the Hadrosauridae family, having a broad, flat snout for grazing. |
echidna |
any of several small, insect-eating, egg-laying mammals of the Australian region that have a long slender snout and a spiny, bristly coat; spiny anteater. |
gar |
any of various freshwater fish of North and Central America that have hard scales, a long thin body, and a long, toothed snout. |
gavial |
a large crocodilian reptile, found in India and Indonesia, that has a long narrow snout. |
hadrosaur |
any dinosaur of the Hadrosauridae family, having a broad, flat snout for grazing; also known as a "duck-billed dinosaur." |
hognose snake |
any of several nonpoisonous snakes characterized by a thick body and an upturned snout. |
marlin |
any of several large ocean game fish that have a long, pointed snout. |
mink |
any of several small, carnivorous North American mammals that are related to the weasel, that have short legs, partly webbed feet, and a pointed snout, and that live near water. [1/3 definitions] |
nuzzle |
to push or rub the nose or snout against something. [2/4 definitions] |
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