proboscis
Kelime Anlamı :

1. fil hortumu.
2. hortum.
3. uzun burun.
4. dil.
5. burun.
6. böceklerde hortum.
7. hortum [(Zooloji) ].
Eş Anlamlı Kelimeler :
Tanımlar :
1. A long flexible snout or trunk, as of an elephant.
2. the slender, tubular feeding and sucking organ of certain invertebrates, such as insects, worms, and mollusks.
3. A human nose, especially a prominent one.
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
1. an elongated tube from the head or connected to the mouth, of an animal.
2. informally, a large human nose.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
1. A hollow organ or tube attached to the head, or connected with the mouth, of various animals, and generally used in taking food or drink; a snout; a trunk.
2. by extension, applied to various tubelike mouth organs of the lower animals that can be everted or protruded.
3. the nose.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
1. an elephant's trunk; hence, a long flexible snout, as the tapir's, or the nose of the proboscis-monkey. see cut under Nasalis.
2. any proboscidiform part or organ: anything that sticks out in front of an animal like an elephant's trunk. see cut under Cystophorinæ.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
1. a long flexible snout as of an elephant
2. the human nose (especially when it is large)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.