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Clepsine :: Clepsine (n.) A genus of fresh-water leeches, furnished with a proboscis. They feed upon mollusks and worms..

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..

Promuscis :: Promuscis (n.) The proboscis of hemipterous insects. See Illust. under Hemiptera.

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..

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..

Siphon :: Siphon (n.) The sucking proboscis of certain parasitic insects and crustaceans.

Tongue :: Tongue (n.) The proboscis of a moth or a butterfly.

Lithe :: Lithe (a.) Capable of being easily bent; pliant; flexible; limber; as, the elephant's lithe proboscis..

Trunk :: Trunk (n.) The proboscis of an elephant.

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..

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.

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

Manubrium :: Manubrium (n.) The proboscis of a jellyfish; -- called also hypostoma. See Illust. of Hydromedusa.

Haustellate :: Haustellate (a.) Provided with a haustellum, or sucking proboscis..

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..

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..

Haustellum :: Haustellum (n.) The sucking proboscis of various insects. See Lepidoptera, and Diptera..

Rhynchobdellea :: Rhynchobdellea (n. pl.) A suborder of leeches including those that have a protractile proboscis, without jaws. Clepsine is the type..

Haustellata :: Haustellata (n. pl.) An artificial division of insects, including all those with a sucking proboscis..

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