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bignose

adj

Etymology

From big + nose.

  1. derived from *néh₂s-✻
  2. inherited from *nosu✻
  3. inherited from nosu
  4. inherited from nose
  5. compounded as bignose — “big + nose”

Definitions

  1. Applied to various kinds of fish characterized by a large nose.

  2. Someone with a large nose

  3. A shark (Carcharhinus altimus)

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bignose. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA