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Definition of proboscis
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Proboscis
(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..
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Proboscis
::
Proboscis
(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..
Trunk
::
Trunk (n.) The
proboscis
of an
insect.
Gnat
::
Gnat (n.) A
blood-sucking
dipterous
fly, of the genus
Culex,
undergoing
a
metamorphosis
in
water.
The
females
have a
proboscis
armed with
needlelike
organs
for
penetrating
the skin of
animals.
These are
wanting
in the
males.
In
America
they are
generally
called
mosquitoes.
See
Mosquito..
Proboscis
::
Proboscis
(n.) By
extension,
applied
to
various
tubelike
mouth
organs
of the lower
animals
that can be
everted
or
protruded..
Elephant
::
Elephant
(n.) A
mammal
of the order
Proboscidia,
of which two
living
species,
Elephas
Indicus
and E.
Africanus,
and
several
fossil
species,
are
known.
They have a
proboscis
or
trunk,
and two large ivory tusks
proceeding
from the
extremity
of the upper jaw, and
curving
upwards.
The molar teeth are large and have
transverse
folds.
Elephants
are the
largest
land
animals
now
existing..
Kahau
::
Kahau (n.) A
long-nosed
monkey
(Semnopithecus
nasalis),
native
of
Borneo.
The
general
color of the body is
bright
chestnut,
with the under
parts,
shoulders,
and sides of the head,
golden
yellow,
and the top of the head and upper part of the back
brown.
Called
also
proboscis
monkey..
Hawk Moth
::
Hawk moth () Any moth of the
family
Sphingidae,
of which there are
numerous
genera
and
species.
They are
large,
handsome
moths,
which fly
mostly
at
twilight
and hover about
flowers
like a
humming
bird,
sucking
the honey by means of a long,
slender
proboscis.
The
larvae
are
large,
hairless
caterpillars
ornamented
with green and other
bright
colors,
and often with a
caudal
spine.
See
Sphinx,
also
Tobacco
worm, and
Tomato
worm..
Hydranth
::
Hydranth
(n.) One of the
nutritive
zooids
of a
hydroid
colony.
Also
applied
to the
proboscis
or
manubrium
of a
hydroid
medusa.
See
Illust.
of
Hydroidea.
Ligula
::
Ligula
(n.) The
central
process,
or front edge, of the
labium
of
insects.
It
sometimes
serves
as a
tongue
or
proboscis,
as in
bees..
Antlia
::
Antlia
(n.) The
spiral
tubular
proboscis
of
lepidopterous
insects.
See
Lepidoptera.
Enopla
::
Enopla
(n. pl.) One of the
orders
of
Nemertina,
characterized
by the
presence
of a
peculiar
armature
of
spines
or
plates
in the
proboscis..
Proboscidifera
::
Proboscidifera
(n. pl.) An
extensive
division
of
pectinibranchiate
gastropods,
including
those that have a long
retractile
proboscis,
with the mouth at the end, as the
cones,
whelks,
tritons,
and
cowries.
See
Illust.
of
Gastropoda,
and of
Winkle..
Mosquito
::
Mosquito
(n.) Any one of
various
species
of gnats of the genus Culex and
allied
genera.
The
females
have a
proboscis
containing,
within
the
sheathlike
labium,
six fine,
sharp,
needlelike
organs
with which they
puncture
the skin of man and
animals
to suck the
blood.
These
bites,
when
numerous,
cause,
in many
persons,
considerable
irritation
and
swelling,
with some pain. The
larvae
and
pupae,
called
wigglers,
are
aquatic..
Proboscis
::
Proboscis
(n.) The nose.
Haustellata
::
Haustellata
(n. pl.) An
artificial
division
of
insects,
including
all those with a
sucking
proboscis..
Tanystomata
::
Tanystomata
(n. pl.) A
division
of
dipterous
insects
in which the
proboscis
is large and
contains
lancelike
mandibles
and
maxillae.
The
horseflies
and
robber
flies are
examples.
Trunk
::
Trunk (n.) The
proboscis
of an
elephant.
Acanthocephala
::
Acanthocephala
(n. pl.) A group of
intestinal
worms,
having
the
proboscis
armed with
recurved
spines..
Promuscis
::
Promuscis
(n.) The
proboscis
of
hemipterous
insects.
See
Illust.
under
Hemiptera.
Siphon
::
Siphon
(n.) The
sucking
proboscis
of
certain
parasitic
insects
and
crustaceans.
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