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- noun Plural form of
proboscis .
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Examples
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If it makes the skeeters sneeze and blow off their proboscises I am all for it.
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Baby elephant seals nuzzle muzzle-to-muzzle -- before they grow up and their proboscises become prohibitive.
Steven Crandell: Shooting From the Heart -- Daisy Gilardini's Wildlife Photography (VIDEO) Steven Crandell 2011
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Ms Beria said, with the increased threat of terrorism and extremist behaviour, it is right that we create a unit of nosy, interfering busybodies brainwashed with our interminable, fear-mongering drivel, to poke their overly-long proboscises into the daily lives of every citizen in the country.
Archive 2009-03-01 Dungeekin 2009
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If it makes the skeeters sneeze and blow off their proboscises I am all for it.
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Baby elephant seals nuzzle muzzle-to-muzzle -- before they grow up and their proboscises become prohibitive.
Steven Crandell: Shooting From the Heart -- Daisy Gilardini's Wildlife Photography (VIDEO) Steven Crandell 2011
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Baby elephant seals nuzzle muzzle-to-muzzle -- before they grow up and their proboscises become prohibitive.
Steven Crandell: Shooting From the Heart -- Daisy Gilardini's Wildlife Photography (VIDEO) Steven Crandell 2011
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Ms Beria said, with the increased threat of terrorism and extremist behaviour, it is right that we create a unit of nosy, interfering busybodies brainwashed with our interminable, fear-mongering drivel, to poke their overly-long proboscises into the daily lives of every citizen in the country.
Government Launch New Anti-Terror Force Dungeekin 2009
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Baby elephant seals nuzzle muzzle-to-muzzle -- before they grow up and their proboscises become prohibitive.
Steven Crandell: Shooting From the Heart -- Daisy Gilardini's Wildlife Photography (VIDEO) Steven Crandell 2011
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In the presence of the treat-implying scent, both groups extended their proboscises to sample it 70% of the time.
Bummed-Out Bees 2011
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And I donate, relenting to their hypodermic proboscises, swollen bodies, radial wings — seeing they could have died without ever tasting.
Royal Blood 2010
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