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Shovel-nosed   Listen
adjective
Shovel-nosed  adj.  (Zool.) Having a broad, flat nose; as, the shovel-nosed duck, or shoveler.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Shovel-nosed" Quotes from Famous Books



... now!" I admonished, and I leaped up on the stern. The sailfish sheered round on the surface, with tail and bill out, while the shark swam about five feet under him. He was a shovel-nosed, big-finned yellow shark, weighing about five hundred pounds. He saw me. I waved my hat at him, but he did not mind that. He swam up toward the surface and his prey. R. C. was now handling the light tackle pretty roughly. It is really remarkable what can be done with nine-thread. ...
— Tales of Fishes • Zane Grey



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