Nares

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  • n. Plural form of naris.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun-plural. The nostrils or nasal openings, -- the anterior nares being the external or proper nostrils, and the posterior nares, the openings of the nasal cavities into the mouth or pharynx.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Plural of naris.
    • Word Usage
    "Paul (1987a, b) seems to have been the first to reject the scavenging hypothesis, at least in print, stating of Quetzalcoatlus that ‘Its slender, two-meter beak, with only thin bars around the external nares, is too weak for regular scavenging’ (p. 20)."
     
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