trunk
Example Sentences
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These snakes are often called elephant trunk snakes because of their unusually loose, baggy skin.
From Science Daily
Except for the blackened bark on their lower trunks, there was no sign of catastrophic fire.
From Los Angeles Times
Remarkably, it turns out, the trunk, branches, twigs and leaves of the tree itself—the species populating it—furnish the mechanical components of such a device.
He compares it to the process by which water evaporates from a trees' leaves, inducing a pumping effect that draws more water up through the plant's trunk and along its branches to replenish the leaves.
From BBC
Visitors pose for pictures in a tunnel formed by dozens of Louis Vuitton trunks and peruse archival handbags, perfumes and runway collections.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
