Definitions for shovel-nosed

shovel-nosed shov·el-nosed

Spelling: [shuhv-uh l-nohzd]
IPA: /ˈʃʌv əlˌnoʊzd/

Shovel-Nosed is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 427 anagrams from letters in shovel-nosed (-deehlnoossv).

Definitions for shovel-nosed

adjective

  1. having the head, snout, or beak broad and flat like the blade of a shovel.

Origin of shovel-nosed

First recorded in 1700-10

Examples for shovel-nosed

In addition to the steer that was slaughtered, a shovel-nosed shark was caught and jerked in like manner with the beef.

He was a shovel-nosed, big-finned yellow shark, weighing about five hundred pounds.

His Totem was the shovel-nosed skate, but he has undergone no fusion with that animal.

Of the former one species is Chinese, and the other is the shovel-nosed spoonbill or paddlefish of the lower Mississippi River.

Scaphirhynchus, skaf-i-ring′kus, n. a genus of tyrant-flycatchers: the shovel-heads or shovel-nosed sturgeons.

Word Value for shovel-nosed
Scrable

12

Words with friends

13

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