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noun
An elongated tube from the head or connected to the mouth, of an animal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
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noun
An elongated tube from the head or connected to the mouth, of an animal.
The tubular feeding and sucking organ of certain invertebrates like insects, worms and molluscs.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: anatomy, biology, entomology, malacology, medicine, natural-sciences, sciences
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noun
An elongated tube from the head or connected to the mouth, of an animal.
The trunk of an elephant.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
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noun
A large or lengthy human nose.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: humorous, informal, mildly
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noun
a long flexible snout as of an elephant
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: trunk
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Broader terms: snout, neb
noun
the human nose (especially when it is large)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: nose, olfactory organ
History
From Latin proboscis, from Ancient Greek προβοσκίς (proboskís, “elephant's trunk”) literally "means for taking food," from προ- (pro-, “before”) + βόσκω (bóskō, “to nourish, feed”), from the Proto-Indo-European root *gweh3- from which also comes βοτάνη (botánē, “grass, fodder”).
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