Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a snout like a hog′ s: specifically applied to American serpents of the genus Heterodon.
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Well, between dancing on Tuesday and climbing Wednesday, this morning I have bruises on my bruises and a lower back that feels like somebody ran a line of hog-nosed staples from my pelvis to the bottom of my ribcage.
i need a woman with eyes like rodin, see the body caught within the stone truepenny 2009
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Other species of interest are the guanaco Lama guanicoe, Argentine grey fox Duscicyon griseus and Austral hog-nosed skunk Conepatus humboldti.
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Congress is like a hog-nosed snake here: it can hiss, rattle its tail in the dry leaves, blow its upper body out into a hood, feign striking, and so forth and so on, but unless the bluff is taken Congress has no power whatsoever.
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Crommet Creek has prolific knotweed, salt marsh gerardia, dwarf glasswort, four-toed salamanders and hog-nosed snakes; all rare species in the state.
Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, New Hampshire 2008
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The world's smallest mammal, Kitti's hog-nosed bat (Craseonycteris thonglongyai), equal in mass to a large bumblebee, resides in the limestone caves of this ecoregion.
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For example, with this hog-nosed snake, not only did they learn that animal is a reptile, that it's specifically a snake, they also learn that this creature is regionally threatened.
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These include one ecoregional endemic species, the tiny Kitti's hog-nosed bat, Craseonycteris thonglongyai (Table 1).
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There are 11 species of skunks, which are divided into four genera: Mephitis (hooded and striped skunks, two species), Spilogale (spotted skunks, two species), Mydaus (stink badgers, two species), and Conepatus (hog-nosed skunks, five species).
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Bay says that weight-mass orthodoxy informed the decision to make Prime a hog-nosed semi instead of the flat-front model from the cartoon, which, he says, would have yielded only 23 feet of robot height.
The Rebirth of Optimus Prime: Behind the Scenes with Director Michael Bay 2007
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Prime morphs, too, going from hog-nosed Peterbilt to hulking robot in a headlong flinging of struts and panels, digging his big blue clodhoppers into the asphalt and reversing course.
The Rebirth of Optimus Prime: Behind the Scenes with Director Michael Bay 2007
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