proboscis

How To Use proboscis In A Sentence

• How, exactly, the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem came to involve at least one flying, no less ungulate with a photoluminescent proboscis, abominable snowmen, a Christmas elf yearning to be a dentist, not to mention more than one lobster... is a bit hard to fathom. David Katz, M.D.: Fatness, misFitness and the Right Kind of Island
• After Publius Licinius Nerva’s letter confessing the extent of the crisis in Sicily reached Rome, Scaurus began to hear one senatorial name bruited about among the grain merchants; his sensitive proboscis smelled fresher — and gamier — game than the false scent of Fimbria and Memmius. The First Man in Rome
• The proboscis is the part of the head that the bug uses to feed on its prey. CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
• The female mosquitoes become the bloodsuckers, and they use their long proboscis to bite other animals and feed on their blood.
• There it proceeds to cut off the mosquito’s apyrase supply, so that when the insect drives its proboscis into a new host, it has a harder time keeping the blood flowing. Parasite Rex
• He is enormous, with a caveman's backward-sloping brow, a hawklike proboscis, and a lumbering walk.
• But its head resembled nothing more than a game bird's, with its pallid pimply skin and pronounced proboscis, or beak.
• For the last few days, the weather had been tolerably cool, and we had not been much troubled with musquitoes; instead, however, we were persecuted severely by a very large greyish kind of horsefly, with a huge proboscis for sucking up the blood. Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1
• It had large, owlish eyes; ears that were capable of facing backward or forward; a wide, toothless mouth that seemed to split its flattened, ovoidal skull almost in half; and a small, constantly wiggling proboscis. Lost And Found
• Short's prediction fitted the data beautifully, except for the proboscis monkey.