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shovel-nosed

[ shuhv-uhl-nohzd ]

adjective

  1. having the head, snout, or beak broad and flat like the blade of a shovel.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of shovel-nosed1

First recorded in 1700–10

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Example Sentences

He was a shovel-nosed, big-finned yellow shark, weighing about five hundred pounds.

Scaphirhynchus, skaf-i-ring′kus, n. a genus of tyrant-flycatchers: the shovel-heads or shovel-nosed sturgeons.

In addition to the steer that was slaughtered, a shovel-nosed shark was caught and jerked in like manner with the beef.

Of the former one species is Chinese, and the other is the shovel-nosed spoonbill or paddlefish of the lower Mississippi River.

His Totem was the shovel-nosed skate, but he has undergone no fusion with that animal.

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