if there were a direct relation between mendacity and the length of one's proboscis, hers would be a mile long
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The Tully monster lived before the dinosaurs 300 million years ago and had a fish-like body, with a long, slender proboscis that had a toothed claw and eyes on either end of a rigid rod across its back.—Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 8 July 2025 Make that clothing lighter in weight to deal with summer heat, but be aware that mosquitoes can penetrate holes in the clothing with their proboscis.
3.—Brandi D. Addison, Austin American Statesman, 10 June 2025 This practice evolved into Cootie, the game in which kids assemble plastic insects with fiddlehead-fern-like proboscises, which was introduced nationwide in 1949 and is still manufactured today.—Bruce Handy, The Atlantic, 16 Apr. 2025 In the center of the contraption, a PVC pipe hung down and curled under itself like a great proboscis.—Matthew Sherrill, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for proboscis
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Etymology
Latin, from Greek proboskis, from pro- + boskein to feed
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