Snub-nose

Nonetheless, the scent of snub-nosed vipers continues to alarm them just as it does their mainland relatives. Both lizard populations react with characteristic signs of stress, jumping abruptly here and there, alternately shaking their forelegs up and down, and lashing their tails from side to side. The century-long respite from predation has not dulled the island lizards inherited fear of snubnosed vipers. 

He flinched. With his eyeglasses balanced on an almost comically snub nose, he looked very owlish. 

Common Name(s) Lataste s Snub-Nosed Viper... 

A nose which varies from the ideal of straightness to a hook or snub may still be of good shape and agreeable to the eye. 

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