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Proboscis

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A long flexible snout or trunk, as of an elephant.

n. The slender, tubular feeding and sucking organ of certain invertebrates, such as insects, worms, and mollusks.

n. A human nose, especially a prominent one.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. An elongated tube from the head or connected to the mouth, of an animal.

n. Informally, a large human nose.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. An elephant's trunk; hence, a long flexible snout, as the tapir's, or the nose of the proboscis-monkey. See cut under Nasalis.

n. Any proboscidiform part or organ: anything that sticks out in front of an animal like an elephant's trunk. See cut under Cystophorinæ.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a long flexible snout as of an elephant

n. the human nose (especially when it is large)

Word Usage

"With a single or twin proboscis-like suction pipes, it pumps up materials from the sea floor and then discharges them into a storage compartment known as the hopper."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

snout neb olfactory organ nose

Variant

proboscides

Form

proboscis monkey

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

snout trunk neb tongue haustellum

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

Manassas colossus

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

tusk snout