PROBOSCIS


Meaning of PROBOSCIS in English

noun (plural -boscises; also proboscides) Etymology: Latin, from Greek proboskis, from pro- + boskein to feed Date: 1609 1. the trunk of an elephant, the human nose especially when prominent, any of various elongated or extensible tubular processes (as the sucking organ of a butterfly) of the oral region of an invertebrate

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