hog-nosedadj.
/ˈhɒɡnəʊzd/, U.S. /ˈhɔɡˌnoʊzd/, /ˈhɑɡˌnoʊzd/ In the names of animals: having a nose resembling that of a pig.
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1802 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. III. 361 Hog-nosed Boa. Boa Contortrix..a native of North America.
1895 Stevens Point (Wisconsin) Jrnl. 9 Mar. The horrid ‘hog nosed caterpillar’..lives on the leaves of the prickly ash and also makes life burdensome to the orange grower.
1951 G. Klingel Bay xiii. 198 Beside a hog-nosed viper a copperhead or a rattler appears positively angelic.
1994 R. Hendrickson Happy Trails 124 Hog-nosed skunk, a Southwestern skunk..with a long snout with which it roots like a hog.
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hog-nosed bat n. (a) U.S. the Mexican long-tongued bat, Choeronycteris mexicana (family Phyllostomidae), a nectarivorous bat found from California to Venezuela; (b) (in full Kitti's hog-nosed bat) a tiny insectivorous bat, Craseonycteris thonglongyai (family Craseonycteridae), found only in Thailand, which is the smallest known mammal.
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1954 Public Health Rep. (U.S. Public Health Service) 69 28/1 Another leaf-nosed bat resembling the long-nosed bat is the hog-nosed bat (Choeronycteris mexicana).
1977 New Scientist 20 Jan. 154/2 Kitti's hog-nosed bat, discovered in Thailand in 1973, and weighing 2.5 grammes, has displaced Savi's white-toothed pygmy shrew as the smallest living mammal.
1981 Mammalian Species No. 160. 1/2 The muzzle [of Craseonycteris thonglongyai]..is rather ‘suiform’ in appearance; hence the common name ‘hog-nosed bat’.
1997 Conservation Biol. 11 96/2 The long-nosed bats (Leptonycteris nivalis and L. curasoae) and the hog-nosed bat (Choeronycteris mexicana)..have comparatively large distributional ranges.
2003 Ecologist May 6/3 The Kitti's Hog-nosed bat and the Regal Crab are also found in Kanjanaburi province in Thailand.
hog-nosed snake n. = hognose n.
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the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Colubridae > member of genus Heterodon (hog-nose)
hognose1737
hog-nosed snake?a1808
spreading adder1836
adder1842
spread head1844
puff adder1882
blowing adder1884
spread adder1902
1737 M. Catesby in Philos. Trans. 1735–6 (Royal Soc.) 39 257 The Hog-Nose Snake.]
?a1808 Universal Syst. Nat. Hist. XII. 426 The Wreathed Boa... Synonymes.—Boa contortrix, Gmel... Coluber constrictor, Linn.... Hog-nosed snake, Catesby.
1842 J. E. DeKay Zool. N.Y. iii. 52 The Hog-nosed Snake..is also called Dead Adder, Spreading Adder, Hog-nose and Buckwheat-nose.
1930 Nature Mag. Mar. 165/1 The little hog-nosed snake, or puff adder as it is more commonly called,..is one of the easiest of all the snakes to photograph.
1994 Canad. Geographic Mar. 37/1 The two sections are separated by a sandy road..where hog-nosed snakes bask on sunny days.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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