proboscis

[Pro*bos·cis]

Proboscis is the scientific term for certain mammals' noses, especially long and flexible ones such as an elephant's trunk or a tapir's snout. If someone calls your nose a proboscis, they mean you've got a pretty big 'un.

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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.

Noun
a long flexible snout as of an elephant

Noun
the human nose (especially when it is large)


n.
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.

n.
By extension, applied to various tubelike mouth organs of the lower animals that can be everted or protruded.

n.
The nose.


Proboscis

Pro*bos"cis , n.; pl. Proboscides . [L. fr. Gr. ; before + to feed, graze.] 1. (Zo'94l.) 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. &hand; 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 maxill'91, or by the labium. See Illusts. of Hemiptera and Lepidoptera. 2. (Zo'94l.) By extension, applied to various tubelike mouth organs of the lower animals that can be everted or protruded. &hand; 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. See Illust. in Appendix. 3. The nose. [Jocose] Proboscis monkey. (Zo'94l.) See Kahau.

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.

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