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| proboscis | 1. <zoology> A hollow organ or tube attached to the head, or connected with the mouth, of various animals, and generally used in taking food or drink; a snout; a trunk. The proboscis of an elephant is a flexible muscular elongation of the nose. The proboscis of insects is usually a chitinous tube formed by the modified maxillae, or by the labium. 2. <zoology> By extension, applied to various tubelike mouth organs of the lower animals that can be everted or protruded. The proboscis of annelids and of mollusks is usually a portion of the pharynx that can be everted or protruded. That of nemerteans is a special long internal organ, not connected with the mouth, and not used in feeding, but capable of being protruded from a pore in the head. 3. The nose. Proboscis monkey. Origin: L. Fr. Gr.; before + to feed, graze. (19 Mar 1998) |
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the human nose (especially when it is large) a long flexible snout as of an elephant
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[pro-BOSS-iss] the extended, coiled mouthparts of a butterfly or moth (and some other insects).
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the inarticulate trophi of the Musc? and is sometimes soft, labiated and generally retractile, sometimes horny and acute; according to Kirby it is the tongue of the Hymenoptera with all the apparatus, and its vagina.
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in invertebrates, a hollow, strawlike mouthpart; some butterflies have a long proboscis for drinking flower nectar
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The long drinking tube used by insects like the butterfly.
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| proboscis | a long flexible snout as of an elephant |
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| proboscis | (informal) the human nose (especially when it is large) |
| proboscis | annual of southern United States to Mexico having large whitish or yellowish flowers mottled with purple and a long curving beak |
| proboscis | Borneo monkey having a long bulbous nose |
| proboscis | soft unsegmented marine worms having a threadlike proboscis and the ability to stretch and contract |
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