proboscis

How To Use proboscis In A Sentence

• 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
• 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
• Mediproboscis: the middle third of the flexed proboscis of muscid flies. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
• Cyrano de Bergerac, Edmond Rostand's famous play about a swordsman-poet with a gigantic heart and a proboscis to match, has been translated countless times to just about every medium and language known to man.
• The zalambdalestids are attractive as rabbit or macroscelidan ancestors since they are clearly jumping animals, and had an elongated rostrum quite possibly supporting a proboscis similar to those of elephant shrews.
• With her pointy-witch proboscis, she gurns and sneers at her audience like a ringmaster gripped by mad cow disease.
• They feed by sucking juices from soft-bodied invertebrates through a long proboscis.
• Gathering Nectar The bee gathers nectar from a flower by inserting its long proboscis down into the nectary. On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
• Nemertines however, lack a protective cuticle or exoskeleton as well as stalked eyes, but have a characteristic eversible proboscis.
• The adult also have antennae, and proboscis, which is used for the sucking of nectar. CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]