proboscis

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Eventually a robot may find it in the rubble and wave their magnetic proboscis over it and include things they find in their vlog.

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Quick take

the human nose (especially when it is large)

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of proboscis gathered in one view.

noun

the human nose (especially when it is large)

noun

a long flexible snout as of an elephant

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for proboscis.

noun

the human nose (especially when it is large)

noun

a long flexible snout as of an elephant

Example sentences

Eventually a robot may find it in the rubble and wave their magnetic proboscis over it and include things they find in their vlog.

Darwin speculated that an insect with a long proboscis would be found to exist and researchers soon discovered the Sphinx Moth.

A nose isn't a proboscis, and "bespectacled avoidance" isn't avoidance of wearing glasses, it's an avoidance that is, itself wearing glasses.

Michelangelo then hid some marble dust in his hand, climbed back up his ladder and pretended to do some more "chiseling" on the offending proboscis.

Now, when I read an article like that, I feel like I'm in Burrough's Naked Lunch and a giant insectoid creature has its proboscis inserted at the top of my spine, trying to suck up my brain.

Three seconds later the game was done, the rat caught half across the areaway, gripped in gentle paws while a four-inch hollow steel needle plunged down from the proboscis of the hound to inject massive jolts of morphine or procaine.