what is a proboscis ? class 3rd row
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Explanation:
noun A long flexible snout or trunk, as of an elephant.
noun A slender, tubular organ in the head region of an invertebrate, such as certain insects and worms, usually used for sucking or piercing.
noun A human nose, especially a prominent one.
from The Century Dictionary.
noun An elephant's trunk; hence, a long flexible snout, as the tapir's, or the nose of the proboscis-monkey. See cut under Nasalis.
noun Any proboscidiform part or organ: anything that sticks out in front of an animal like an elephant's trunk. See cut under Cystophorinæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun (Zoöl.) 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 (Zoöl.) By extension, applied to various tubelike mouth organs of the lower animals that can be everted or protruded.
noun Jocose The nose.
noun (Zoöl.) See Kahau.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun anatomy An elongated tube from the head or connected to the mouth, of an animal.
noun Informally, a large human nose.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun a long flexible snout as of an elephant
noun the human nose (especially when it is
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the nose of a mammal, especially when it is long and mobile such as the trunk of an elephant or the snout of a tapir.
ENTOMOLOGY
(in many insects) an elongated sucking mouthpart that is typically tubular and flexible.
ZOOLOGY
(in some worms) an extensible tubular sucking organ.
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