proboscis

She introduces us to the Ugly Animal Preservation Society, an organization whose remit is to raise awareness and support for creatures such as the proboscis monkey and the blobfish.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026

Snuffle and let that sense of curiosity and discovery waft pleasingly over your proboscis.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2025

When a mosquito bites you, it pierces the skin using a mouthpart called a proboscis to suck up blood.

From Seattle Times ● May 25, 2024

On closer inspection, another feature of the hummingbird hawk moth quickly catches the eye: the spiralling curled proboscis, which is as long as the entire animal.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 29, 2024

The butterfly poked its tiny proboscis down into her hair, probing for nurture, then flew away unsatisfied.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

Again, this seems incompatible with the presence of a trunk, as if sauropods had proboscides, wouldn’t they be grabbing foliage with the trunk tip, and then passing it into the mouth, over the teeth?

From Scientific American ● Nov. 20, 2012

Mammals with proboscides or inferred proboscides – I’m thinking tapirs, pyrotheres, astrapotheres, the stem-whale Makaracetus, some amynodontid rhinos, some oreodonts, Macrauchenia, dik-diks, saigas, desmans, sengis and so on – have narrow snouts.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 20, 2012

As we’ll see, and as is obvious if you look at the proboscides of extant mammals, there’s a lot more to having a trunk that having large, dorsally located nostrils.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 20, 2012

Naturally there will be mercantile proboscides dipping here and there, gleaning a little honey for the sweetening of the pots.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is therefore advisable to see that the zinc is so far above the sugar that the moths are unable to reach the latter by thrusting their extended proboscides through the perforations.

From Butterflies and Moths (British) by Furneaux, William S.

"During our nighttime scuba dives, we searched for the ribbon-like proboscises of Bonellia sp aff minor extending out from burrow entrances," says lead author Ryutaro Goto at KyotoU's Field Science Education and Research Center.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2023

The Malagasy moths take the prize here, with proboscises that measure 6.6 centimeters longer on average, as seen in the picture above.

From Science Magazine ● Oct. 1, 2021

The insects bite into leaves with their mandibles and proboscises to induce flowering up to one month earlier than normal.

From Nature ● May 21, 2020

The bees soon cut several holes in the leaves of each plant using their mandibles and proboscises.

From Scientific American ● May 21, 2020

But Aristotle says that the cuttle-fish has eight feet, of which the two lowest are the largest; and that it has two proboscises, and between them it has its eyes and mouth placed.

From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us