Definitions for tube-nosed
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Random House Webster's College Dictionary
tube′-nosed`(adj.)
having a long, tubelike beak or snout.
Category: Ornithology, Zoology
(of a petrel or similar bird) having extended tubelike nostrils.
Category: Ornithology
Origin of tube-nosed:
1885–90
Webster Dictionary
Tube-nosed(adj)
having the nostrils prolonged in the form of horny tubes along the sides of the beak; -- said of certain sea birds
Tube-nosed(adj)
belonging to the Tubinares
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