longnose
adjective
longnose is an adjective meaning “Having a long nose (used in the names of fish and other animals)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled L-O-N-G-N-O-S-E, and it appears about once in every 51 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does longnose mean?
adjective
- 1
Having a long nose (used in the names of fish and other animals).
longnose gar
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of longnose
- longnosed
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is longnose?
Longnose appears about once in every 51 million words in written English, the 222,788th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does longnose come from?
From long + nose.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).