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Definition of proboscis
Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of proboscis is as below...
Proboscis
(n.) By
extension,
applied
to
various
tubelike
mouth
organs
of the lower
animals
that can be
everted
or
protruded..
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Promuscis
::
Promuscis
(n.) The
proboscis
of
hemipterous
insects.
See
Illust.
under
Hemiptera.
Lithe
::
Lithe (a.)
Capable
of being
easily
bent;
pliant;
flexible;
limber;
as, the
elephant's
lithe
proboscis..
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..
Retinaculum
::
Retinaculum
(n.) One of the
retractor
muscles
of the
proboscis
of
certain
worms.
Tongue
::
Tongue
(n.) The
proboscis
of a moth or a
butterfly.
Hemiptera
::
Hemiptera
(n. pl.) An order of
hexapod
insects
having
a
jointed
proboscis,
including
four sharp
stylets
(mandibles
and
maxillae),
for
piercing.
In many of the
species
(Heteroptera)
the front wings are
partially
coriaceous,
and
different
from the
others..
Siphon
::
Siphon
(n.) The
sucking
proboscis
of
certain
parasitic
insects
and
crustaceans.
Proboscis
::
Proboscis
(n.) By
extension,
applied
to
various
tubelike
mouth
organs
of the lower
animals
that can be
everted
or
protruded..
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..
Acanthocephala
::
Acanthocephala
(n. pl.) A group of
intestinal
worms,
having
the
proboscis
armed with
recurved
spines..
Proboscidiform
::
Proboscidiform
(a.)
Having
the form or uses of a
proboscis;
as, a
proboscidiform
mouth..
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..
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..
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..
Haustellata
::
Haustellata
(n. pl.) An
artificial
division
of
insects,
including
all those with a
sucking
proboscis..
Rhachiglossa
::
Rhachiglossa
(n. pl.) A
division
of
marine
gastropods
having
a
retractile
proboscis
and three
longitudinal
rows of teeth on the
radula.
It
includes
many of the large
ornamental
shells,
as the
miters,
murices,
olives,
purpuras,
volutes,
and
whelks.
See
Illust.
in
Append..
Sea Elephant
::
Sea
elephant
() A very large seal
(Macrorhinus
proboscideus)
of the
Antarctic
seas, much
hunted
for its oil. It
sometimes
attains
a
length
of
thirty
feet, and is
remarkable
for the
prolongation
of the nose of the adult male into an
erectile
elastic
proboscis,
about a foot in
length.
Another
species
of
smaller
size (M.
angustirostris)
occurs
on the coast of Lower
California,
but is now
nearly
extinct..
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..
Rhynchobdellea
::
Rhynchobdellea
(n. pl.) A
suborder
of
leeches
including
those that have a
protractile
proboscis,
without
jaws.
Clepsine
is the
type..
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