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Definition of Long-snouted
1. Adjective. Having a snout that is longer than average.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Long-snouted
Literary usage of Long-snouted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale (1884)
"The long-snouted Dolphin. DESCRIPTION.—Similar to the last, but with a longer
and more slender snout. HABITAT.—Indian Ocean ; coast of Ceylon. No. 268. ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"The size of these and the upper temporal fossae stand in an inverse ratio to each
other. The upper fossae are still comparatively large in the long-snouted ..."
3. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1902)
"... also with both broad and long-snouted species, range from the Upper Jurassic
through the Cretaceous and Tertiary, and comprise all the recent ..."
4. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences by New York Academy of Sciences (1915)
"It would naturally develop in the slow, omnivorous broad-snouted crocodiles and
not in the swift-moving fish-catching, long- snouted types; ..."
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