shortnose
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editshortnose (not comparable)
- (zoology) Having a short nose.
- 2015 July 21, Lisa W. Foderaro, “Group Petitions to Save a Prehistoric Fish From Modern Construction”, in New York Times[1]:
- Most of them — both Atlantic sturgeons and the smaller shortnose sturgeons, also endangered but more plentiful — have been found dead along the shore, with injuries like long gashes and severed heads, suggesting impacts from boat propellers.
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editshortnose (plural shortnoses)
- Any individual of the organisms listed above