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noun
A small muscle on each side of the nose that constricts the nasal aperture by the action of a triangular transverse portion which draws the lateral part of the aperture upward and a quadrangular alar portion which draws it downward.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
proboscis monkeys
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: genus Nasalis
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: mammal genus
History
Unadapted borrowing from New Latin nāsālis, ellipsis of mūsculus nāsālis (“nasal muscle”). Doublet of nasal.
Across languages
3 source translations are retained for this English entry.
