proboscis
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noun (English)
1. (anatomy) An elongated tube from the head or connected to the mouth, of an animal.Examples: "Don Caldwell, editor-in-chief of the site Know Your Meme, namechecks Brr Brr Patapim, “a proboscis monkey that is also a tree”, as one who made it to YouTube."
2. (anatomy) An elongated tube from the head or connected to the mouth, of an animal.Examples: "Unlike the proboscides of Lower brachyceran lineages, which are continuous with the head capsule and tend to dangle (Matsuda 1965), the proboscides of most cyclorrhaphan species are suspended by a membranous region and divided into three functional parts: the basiproboscis (rostrum), medioproboscis (haustellum), and distiproboscis (labellum), each of which is defined by internal muscles but also shares muscles with the other regions (Graham-Smith 1930; Lall and Davies 1971)."
3. (anatomy) An elongated tube from the head or connected to the mouth, of an animal.
4. (informal, mildly humorous) A large or lengthy human nose.humorousinformalmildly
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