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NARES |
Nostrils |
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FLARING |
Widening (nostrils) |
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NARINE |
Of or belonging to the nostrils. |
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GYMNORHINAL |
Having unfeathered nostrils, as certain birds. |
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SIPHORHINAL |
Having tubular nostrils, as the petrels. |
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STREPSORHINE |
Having twisted nostrils; -- said of the lemurs. |
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SCIZORHINAL |
Having the anterior nostrils prolonged backward in the
form of a slit. |
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APOPHLEGMATIC |
Designed to facilitate discharges of phlegm or mucus
from mouth or nostrils. |
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SNORT |
To expel throught the nostrils with a snort; to utter
with a snort. |
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PERVIOUS |
Open; -- used synonymously with perforate, as applied to
the nostrils or birds. |
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RHINITIS |
Infllammation of the nose; esp., inflammation of the
mucous membrane of the nostrils. |
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SPIRACLE |
The nostril, or one of the nostrils, of whales,
porpoises, and allied animals. |
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MUFFLE |
The bare end of the nose between the nostrils; -- used esp.
of ruminants. |
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PHYLLORHINE |
Of or pertaining to Phyllorhina and other related
genera of bats that have a leaflike membrane around the nostrils. |
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TUBINARES |
A tribe of sea birds comprising the petrels,
shearwaters, albatrosses, hagdons, and allied birds having tubular
horny nostrils. |
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TUBE-NOSED |
Having the nostrils prolonged in the form of horny
tubes along the sides of the beak; -- said of certain sea birds. |
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EXPIRE |
To breathe out; to emit from the lungs; to throw out
from the mouth or nostrils in the process of respiration; -- opposed to
inspire. |
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CATARRHINE |
One of the Catarrhina, a division of Quadrumana,
including the Old World monkeys and apes which have the nostrils close
together and turned downward. See Monkey. |
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NOSE |
The prominent part of the face or anterior extremity of the
head containing the nostrils and olfactory cavities; the olfactory
organ. See Nostril, and Olfactory organ under Olfactory. |
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BERNA FLY |
A Brazilian dipterous insect of the genus Trypeta, which
lays its eggs in the nostrils or in wounds of man and beast, where the
larvae do great injury. |
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FOSSA |
A pit, groove, cavity, or depression, of greater or less
depth; as, the temporal fossa on the side of the skull; the nasal
fossae containing the nostrils in most birds. |
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STAGWORM |
The larve of any species of botfly which is parasitic
upon the stag, as /strus, or Hypoderma, actaeon, which burrows beneath
the skin, and Cephalomyia auribarbis, which lives in the nostrils. |
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VOMER |
A bone, or one of a pair of bones, beneath the ethmoid
region of the skull, forming a part a part of the partition between the
nostrils in man and other mammals. |
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VIBRISSA |
One of the specialized or tactile hairs which grow about
the nostrils, or on other parts of the face, in many animals, as the
so-called whisker... |
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DIPNOI |
...nera
Ceratodus and Lepidosiren, which present the closest approximation to
the Amphibia. The air bladder acts as a lung, and the nostrils open
... |