| proboscis |
The feeding tube of a butterfly.
Ãâó: www.butterfly-guide.co.uk/help/gloss.htm
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| proboscis |
The tongue of an insect or, in this case, a butterfly. Some butterflies have tongues longer than they are. They need them for that long drink of water hiding under the rocks.
Ãâó: www.mountainvalleygrowers.com/definitions.htm
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| proboscis |
Name given to various kinds of sucking mouths in which some of the mouth-parts are drawn out to form a long tube, like in some butterflies. Stag beetles have feathery tubes that they can extend to suck their food with.
Ãâó: maria.fremlin.de/stagbeetles/glossary.html
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| proboscis |
This is the feeding structure insects have found in the head between the eyes. It is somewhat like a straw, used for ingesting the liquids which the adults feed on.
Ãâó: www.pestking.com/glossary_of_terms.htm
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| proboscis |
usually refers to a trunk or long snout, but is also a comical word for nose. Fields called his nose this in several films and in real life.
Ãâó: www.louisville.edu/~kprayb01/WCWords.html
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