Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Latin plural of
proboscis .
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- noun Plural form of
proboscis .
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Examples
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The inspiration for the Bionic Handling Assistant comes from elephants 'trunks, which are muscular, flexible extensions to their upper lip and nose, with finger-like growths known as proboscides that enable them to grasp food and other small objects.
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The inspiration for the Bionic Handling Assistant comes from elephants 'trunks, which are muscular, flexible extensions to their upper lip and nose, with finger-like growths known as proboscides that enable them to grasp food and other small objects.
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The inspiration for the Bionic Handling Assistant comes from elephants 'trunks, which are muscular, flexible extensions to their upper lip and nose, with finger-like growths known as proboscides that enable them to grasp food and other small objects.
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The inspiration for the Bionic Handling Assistant comes from elephants 'trunks, which are muscular, flexible extensions to their upper lip and nose, with finger-like growths known as proboscides that enable them to grasp food and other small objects.
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The inspiration for the Bionic Handling Assistant comes from elephants 'trunks, which are muscular, flexible extensions to their upper lip and nose, with finger-like growths known as proboscides that enable them to grasp food and other small objects.
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The inspiration for the Bionic Handling Assistant comes from elephants 'trunks, which are muscular, flexible extensions to their upper lip and nose, with finger-like growths known as proboscides that enable them to grasp food and other small objects.
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The larval insects insert their proboscides into the bark of young shoots of certain lac-bearing trees, varieties of Ficus, draw out the sap for nutriment, and at once exude a resinous secretion which entirely covers their bodies and the twigs, often to the thickness of one-half inch.
Handwork in Wood William Noyes
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You must pluck them delicately, between thumb and forefinger, and persuade them gently to remove their proboscides from your quivering flesh.
Chapter 10 1913
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You must pluck them delicately, between thumb and forefinger, and persuade them gently to remove their proboscides from your quivering flesh.
Chapter 10 1911
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Were I not persona non grata I would like to witness the classroom performances of these young professors -- chosen with owlish gravity by men who cannot write deer sur without the expenditure of enough nervo-muscular energy to raise a cotton crop, chewing off the tips of their tongues and blotting the paper with their proboscides.
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