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Meaning of "snub-nosed" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SNUB-NOSED

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SNUB-NOSED

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Snub-Nosed is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES SNUB-NOSED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of snub-nosed in the English dictionary

The definition of snub-nosed in the dictionary is having a short turned-up nose. Other definition of snub-nosed is having an extremely short barrel.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SNUB-NOSED

snub
snubbe
snubbed
snubber
snubbiness
snubbing
snubbingly
snubbish
snubby
snubfin dolphin
snubness
snuck
snudge
snuff
snuff film
snuff it
snuff movie
snuff-dipping
snuffbox
snuffer

WORDS THAT END LIKE SNUB-NOSED

beaky-nosed
bull-nosed
closed
composed
cyanosed
disposed
enclosed
exposed
hard-nosed
hook-nosed
long-nosed
opposed
proposed
pug-nosed
snot-nosed
snotty-nosed
stenosed
supposed
toffee-nosed
undiagnosed

Synonyms and antonyms of snub-nosed in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «snub-nosed» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SNUB-NOSED

Find out the translation of snub-nosed to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of snub-nosed from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «snub-nosed» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

塌鼻
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

hocicuda
570 millions of speakers

English

snub-nosed
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

चपटी नाक
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

أفطس الأنف
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

курносая
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

de nariz arrebitado
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

নতনাস
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

au nez retroussé
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Snub-nosed
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Stupsnase
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

しし鼻の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

들창코
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Snub-nosed
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

mui tẹt
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அதட்டல் மூக்கு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

थुंकणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kalkık burunlu
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

con il naso a patatina
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zadartym nosem
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

кирпата
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cârn
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

επιπλήττει- nosed
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

stompneuzig
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

snub - nosed
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

snub - nosed
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of snub-nosed

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SNUB-NOSED»

The term «snub-nosed» is regularly used and occupies the 84.110 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SNUB-NOSED» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about snub-nosed

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SNUB-NOSED»

Discover the use of snub-nosed in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to snub-nosed and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Primate Adaptation and Evolution: 3rd Edn
... monkey Grey-shanked douc langur Red-shanked douc langur Black-shanked douc langur Tonkin snub-nosed monkey Yunnan snub-nosed monkey Guizhou snub-nosed monkey Golden snub-nosed monkey Burmese snub-nosed monkey  ...
John G. Fleagle, 2013
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Elwyn Simons: A Search for Origins: A Search for Origins
Conversations with Dr. Le Xuan Canh, Mr. Vu Ngoc Thanh, Dr. Ramesh Boonratana, Ms. Sonya Wolters, Ms. Bettina Martin, and Mr. Tilo Nadler helped us to better understand the challenges for successfully conserving the Tonkin snub-nosed ...
John G Fleagle, Christopher C. Gilbert, 2007
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Vietnam: A Natural History
-bound for 280 days a year (Yunnan Snub-nosed Monkey). These cold, )erate environments are among the harshest of all nonhuman primate tats. Snub-nosed monkey species vary in diet, coat color, body size, de- of sexual dimorphism, ...
Eleanor Jane Sterling, Martha Maud Hurley, Le Duc Minh, 2008
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Grounded Ethics: The Empirical Bases of Normative Judgements
Thus, the meaning of the word snub-nosed is fixed by sentences like "Socrates was snub-nosed" and "This is a snub-nosed revolver." In these sentences, the word snub-nosed is a predicate of Socrates and the revolver, not a name of a ...
Max Hocutt
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Primate Anatomy: An Introduction
Rhinopithecus (Milne- Rhinopithecus roxellana Edwards, 1872)27 Rhinopithecus avunculus Snub-nosed Langurs Rhinopithecus bieti Rhinopithecus brelichi Genus Rhinopithecus had only one species, R. roxellana, until three subspecies ...
Friderun Ankel-Simons, 2010
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Time, Tense, and Reference
With respect to tenseless possible worlds, to say that Socrates has in w the property of being snub-nosed is to say that Socrates would have (tenselessly) the property of being snub-nosed, were w to be actual; the state of affairs w's being ...
Aleksandar Jokić, Quentin Smith, 2003
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Chinese Wildlife: A Visitor's Guide
Two other groups of monkey are found in China — the snub-nosed monkeys ( genus Rhinopithecus) , and the leaf monkeys (genus Trachypithecus) . The former have short, upturned noses and long, shaggy fur and live in certain mountain ...
Martin Walters, 2008
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Polyeideia: The Iambi of Callimachus and the Archaic Iambic ...
This could be the name of a stock figure of iambic poetry of this era.66 The adjective oiuo<; [snub-nosed] is something of a topos in Hellenistic poetry and in later satiric literature for characterizing people in an ironical or comic light; it is ...
Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, 2002
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Primates
John P. Rafferty. Snub-Nosed Monkeys Snub-nosed monkeys (rhinopithecus), which are also called snub-nosed langurs, make up a group of four species of large and unusual leaf monkeys found in highland forests of central China and ...
John P. Rafferty, 2011
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Aquinas's Moral Theory: Essays in Honor of Norman Kretzmann
That is, negative predicates can be truly affirmed only of things that exist ( whereas negative propositions can be truly said also about things that do not exist). Now since neither being snub-nosed nor being non-snub-nosed is entailed by ...
Scott MacDonald, Eleonore Stump, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SNUB-NOSED»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term snub-nosed is used in the context of the following news items.
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Protecting dogs from the heat: snub nosed dogs more sensitive to sun
Snub-nosed dogs do the worst in heat. "The dogs with the flat faces, the pugs, pug-mixes, the Boston terrier, shih tzu, those types of dogs because of their facial ... «FOX 10 News Phoenix, Jun 15»
2
Mystery Monkeys of Shangri-La
... award-winning filmmaker, Xi Zhinong, this spectacular film is the true story of a family of Yunnan snub-nosed monkeys living in the highest forests in the world. «PBS, Mar 15»
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Golden Snub-Nosed Monkeys Play in the Snow
The golden snub-nosed monkey is endemic to a small area in temperate, mountainous forests of central and Southwest China. In the world-famous Shennongjia ... «The West Australian, Dec 14»
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Face to face with Yunnan's snub-nosed monkeys
Yunnan snub-nosed monkeys are highly endangered, shy, and very difficult to see in the wild. Our best bet to catch a glimpse was in the Baima Snow Mountain ... «GoKunming, May 14»
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First video ever of the “snub nosed monkey” – a monkey species …
Rhinopithecus strykeri, also known as the Myanmar Snub-Nosed Monkey or Sneezing Monkey was discovered just a few years ago, in 2010. Their small ... «ZME Science, Apr 14»
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First-Ever Video of Critically Endangered Myanmar Snub-Nosed
Here's something you don't see every day: video footage of the critically endangered Myanmar snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus strykeri), a species that was ... «Scientific American, Apr 14»
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World's first video footage of the Myanmar snub-nosed monkey …
The first ever video footage of the newly discovered Myanmar snub-nosed monkey has been captured by Fauna & Flora International (FFI) in Kachin state, ... «Phys.Org, Apr 14»
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Rare reversal of decline in number of Tonkin snub-nosed monkeys
The Tonkin snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus avunculus) occurs only in Northern Vietnam in a few isolated forest patches. With an estimated global ... «Phys.Org, Dec 13»
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Kids' stories and new stoves protect the golden snub-nosed monkey …
About 10,000 endangered golden snub-nosed monkeys (Rhinopithecus roxellana roxellana) remain in western and central China's mountain forests, according ... «Mongabay.com, Nov 13»
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Tracking China's Rare Golden Snub-Nosed Monkey
The golden snub-nosed monkey is unique to China and is seldom seen, but was captured on film by National Geographic for its television series, "Wild China," a ... «ABC News, Jun 13»

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