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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..

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

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

Kahau :: Kahau (n.) A long-nosed monkey (Semnopithecus nasalis), native of Borneo. The general color of the body is bright chestnut, with the under parts, shoulders, and sides of the head, golden yellow, and the top of the head and upper part of the back brown. Called also proboscis monkey..

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..

Hawk Moth :: Hawk moth () Any moth of the family Sphingidae, of which there are numerous genera and species. They are large, handsome moths, which fly mostly at twilight and hover about flowers like a humming bird, sucking the honey by means of a long, slender proboscis. The larvae are large, hairless caterpillars ornamented with green and other bright colors, and often with a caudal spine. See Sphinx, also Tobacco worm, and Tomato worm..

Sivatherium :: Sivatherium (n.) A genus of very large extinct ruminants found in the Tertiary formation of India. The snout was prolonged in the form of a proboscis. The male had four horns, the posterior pair being large and branched. It was allied to the antelopes, but very much larger than any exsisting species..

Enopla :: Enopla (n. pl.) One of the orders of Nemertina, characterized by the presence of a peculiar armature of spines or plates in the proboscis..

Proboscidate :: Proboscidate (a.) Having a proboscis; proboscidial.

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

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

Proboscis :: Proboscis (n.) The nose.

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

Retinaculum :: Retinaculum (n.) One of the retractor muscles of the proboscis of certain worms.

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

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

Antlia :: Antlia (n.) The spiral tubular proboscis of lepidopterous insects. See Lepidoptera.

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

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..

Hydranth :: Hydranth (n.) One of the nutritive zooids of a hydroid colony. Also applied to the proboscis or manubrium of a hydroid medusa. See Illust. of Hydroidea.

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