| proboscis |
The long drinking tube used by insects like the butterfly.
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| proboscis |
The proboscis is aa tube-like, flexible "tongue" that butterflies and moths use to sip their liquid food (usually flower nectar or the liquid from rotting fruits). The proboscis uncoils to sip food, and coils up again into a spiral when not in use. The lepidopteran with the longest proboscis is the hawk moth. PRODUCER A producer (or autotroph) is an organism that makes its own food from light energy (using photosynthesis), or chemical energy (using chemosynthesis). ...
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| probability distribution |
A specification of the probabilities for each possible value of a random variable.
Ãâó: www-personal.umich.edu/~alandear/glossary/p.html
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| proband |
The first family member that has the disease.
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| proboscis |
A mouthpart of an insect, usually long and skinny. Mosquitos have a proboscis to suck blood; butterflies and moths have a coiled up proboscis which they unravel to suck nectar from flowers.
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