What is the meaning of proboscis?
1a : the trunk of an elephant also : any long flexible snout. b : the human nose especially when prominent. 2 : any of various elongated or extensible tubular processes (such as the sucking organ of a butterfly) of the oral region of an invertebrate.
How do you say proboscis of a butterfly?
What is proboscis in a sentence?
the human nose (especially when it is large) 2. a long flexible snout as of an elephant. 1 An elephant’s trunk is a proboscis. 2 Each was attached to the leaf by its proboscis.