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snub-nosed
(redirected from Snub-nosed monkey)

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snub-nosed (snbnzd)
adj.
1. Having a short, turned-up nose.
2. Having an extremely short barrel: a snub-nosed pistol.
snub-nosed
adj
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Anatomy) having a short turned-up nose
2. (Military / Firearms, Gunnery, Ordnance & Artillery) (of a pistol) having an extremely short barrel
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Adj.1.snub-nosed - having a blunt nose; "a pug-nosed boy with freckles"; "a snub-nosed automatic"
pug-nose, pug-nosed, short-nosed
nosed - having a nose (either literal or metaphoric) especially of a specified kind
Translations
snub-nosed [ˈsnʌbˈnəʊzd] ADJ → chato, ñato(LAm)
snub-nosed [ˌsnʌbˈnəʊzd] adj → con il naso a patata or patatina
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Byline: ANI Washington, Dec 7 (ANI): A new population of the extremely rare Tonkin snub-nosed monkey has recently been discovered in a remote forested area of northern Vietnam.
New population of extremely rare snub-nosed monkey discovered in ... by Asian News International
Overall, 69 species and sub-species (11% of the total) are considered critically endangered, including the mountain gorilla in central Africa, Tonkin snub-nosed monkey in Vietnam and grey-shanked douc langur from Asia.
Nearly half of all the world's primates at risk of extinction by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
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