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An elongated projecting structure used by an animal for feeding, sensing, or grasping.
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- extend a proboscis
- feeding proboscis
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A narrow proboscis unfolded from the creature’s face.
The moth lowered its proboscis into the flower.
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Primary category: horror. Forms: Singular: proboscis; plural: proboscises or proboscides. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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