A proboscis is an elongated appendage from the head of an animal, either a vertebrate or an invertebrate. In invertebrates, the term usually refers to tubular mouthparts used for feeding and sucking. In vertebrates, a proboscis is an elongated nose or snout.

What is meant by the word 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.

What is another word for proboscis?

In this page you can discover 15 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for proboscis, like: nose, trunk, beak, haustellum (sucking proboscis), snoot, schnoz, schnozzle, snout, body, convex and mouthpart.