How To Use Proboscis In A Sentence
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Brachyostomata: brachycerous Diptera with short proboscis.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
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Mediproboscis: the middle third of the flexed proboscis of muscid flies.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
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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.
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With her pointy-witch proboscis, she gurns and sneers at her audience like a ringmaster gripped by mad cow disease.
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They feed by sucking juices from soft-bodied invertebrates through a long proboscis.
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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
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Nemertines however, lack a protective cuticle or exoskeleton as well as stalked eyes, but have a characteristic eversible proboscis.
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The adult also have antennae, and proboscis, which is used for the sucking of nectar.
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All tapirs have a short, fleshy proboscis formed by the snout and upper lips.
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An extraordinary sculpted figure created by a dancer walking backwards on all fours, with a bulbous proboscis at one end and a long tail at the other, may be a lizard; I wasn't sure.
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Basi-proboscis: basal third of the flexed proboscis of muscid flies.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
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For the mandibles were sharp, pointed ivory fangs; the proboscis was a kind of tongue in the vaguely mammalian mouths of these moths.
An East Wind Coming
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A big bull elephant seal had been lying there sleeping when another cruised up like a submarine, inflating its huge proboscis and blowing bad breath in a deep growl.
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The proboscis is a synapomorphy of the taxon and is used primarily in prey capture.
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The feeding structures of lice are complex, including the haustellum, a proboscis-like tube with teeth, which is used to pierce the host's skin.
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Body more or less flask-shape, two or three times as long as broad, with conical apex, which is slightly elastic and protrusible; surface obliquely striate, with well-defined lines, 14 to 16 in number; cilia uniform on the body, with a crown of longer ones at the base of the conical proboscis.
Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901
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In filter-feeding tubicolous polychaetes the buccal cavity is not eversible and there is no proboscis.
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An anterior region bears, besides the proboscis, three or four pairs of appendages, including the first pair of walking legs.
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Well, Gray's Anatomy clearly shows your human proboscis with two nostrils.
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Echiurans have an extensible proboscis and a set of small hooks at the posterior end; hence the Latin name of the phylum, ‘spine-tails.’
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It uses its trunk, or proboscis, to gather food and water and also to play, fight, feel its surroundings and detect smells.
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Short's prediction fitted the data beautifully, except for the proboscis monkey.
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Phylum Nemertea contains about 1,150 species of unsegmented worms that possess an eversible proboscis contained in a fluid-filled cavity or rhynchocoel.
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For example, some flowers that look white to us sport ultraviolet markings, showing butterflies exactly where to land and insert the proboscis for nectar.
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The white canvas fan overhead did not stir, dust and cobwebs crisscrossed the interstices, and a fat dollop of a spider dangled from the hub in front of my proboscis until I batted it away with a rolled Forbes.
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Located on the lower Kinabatangan River, the Sukau rainforest teems with wildlife, the star attraction being the proboscis monkey.
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Old World monkeys: guenon; baboon; colobus monkey; langur; macaque ; mandrill ; mangabey; patas; proboscis monkey.
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A proboscidian came next with four short tusks, and in the Miocene there followed a Mastodon (Fig. 346) armed with two pairs of long, straight tusks on which rested a flexible proboscis.
The Elements of Geology
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This is an unusual mode of feeding for echiurans, and most use their proboscises to move sedimentary detritus to their mouths.
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For example, in some morphologically based studies the issue is whether the lemnisci and proboscis of acanthocephalans are homologous to the hypodermic cushions and apical rostrum of bdelloids.
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The ceryx and the purple murex have this organ firm and solid; and just as the myops, or horse-fly, and the oestrus, or gadfly, can pierce the skin of a quadruped, so is that proboscis proportionately stronger in these testaceans; for they bore right through the shells of other shell-fish on which they prey.
The History of Animals
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Faix if it wasn't that her proboscis is a taste longer,
Ungava
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It appears that they were not only able to recognize food at the sediment surface and collect it with a proboscis (as was the case with all those burrowers discussed above) but also to find the necessary building materials.
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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
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They each had two compound eyes, blue fur, antennae, and a proboscis.
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An elephant's trunk is a proboscis.
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In addition to the thorny proboscis, acanthocephalans are distinguished morphologically as cylindrical and unsegmented worms.
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Furthermore, when we cooled the metal to below ninety degrees Fahrenheit, no other stimulus we presented could induce the vinchuca to extend its proboscis.
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With a single or twin proboscis-like suction pipes, it pumps up materials from the sea floor and then discharges them into a storage compartment known as the hopper.
Trailing Suction Hopper Dredgers
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The contractile vacuole is terminal, the proboscis is short, slightly raised and separated from the body by a deep cleft; the buccal cilia are inserted part way up on the proboscis.
Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901
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Anyway, I went up to see my mother on Sunday, stood on a train for two hours, hung around a village dribbling from my proboscis, ate a load of goose, drank a load of wine, sneezed and so on and am now back in London wasting time.
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When the hawk moth proboscises were long compared to the length of the flower tube, the hawk moths did not efficiently pick up pollen, and the flowers did not reproduce well.
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All tapirs have a short, fleshy proboscis formed by the snout and upper lips.
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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.
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Furthermore, in Lazzari's experiments the vinchucas never raised their proboscises in an attempt to bite the warm metal plate: they ‘knew’ it wasn't close enough, even though their eyes were covered.
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Not all parasites pass through a transformation inside the vector and remain in the salivary glands: filarial parasites are attached to the so-called proboscis (the mouth-part penetrating the skin) and are therefore transmitted mechanically.
Chapter 6
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On the underside of the head is the paired proboscis, which is used to suck nectar from flowers.
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While my proboscis was never truly petite to begin with, neither did it require me to have a face the size of Montana on which to park it.
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As the bee's proboscis is inserted into the flower it pushes past the retrorse anthers to the nectar at the base of the tube.
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Both these burrowers had a proboscis permanently penetrating to the surface and, at least in the case of the detritus feeding by Psammichnites, collected food together with sediment from the surface.
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The right side is flattened and alone provided with cilia, while the left side of the body proper is arched; on the left side of the proboscis is a row of coarse cilia resembling an adoral zone, and a row of trichocysts.
Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901
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Darwin realized that when a moth with pollen masses stuck on its proboscis visited the next flower, the bent-over pollen mass would be aligned for perfect delivery onto the new flower's stigma.
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The software was clearly unable to cope with the size of my real-life proboscis, though, squashing it somewhat and giving me the air of a boxer who's walked into one too many fists.
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The backfill is of the same sediment as around the gallery and the proboscis cut is straight.
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The specimen in the drawing is segmented, which is a diagnostic characteristic of an oligochaete, and it has a long proboscis, an important feature that occurs in members of the genus Stylaria.
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Its proboscis, which looks like a nose but is actually the longest mouthpart of any known fly, protrudes as much as four inches from its head - five times the length of its bee-size body.
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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
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The Alaska spoonworm is said to have a proboscis that is not easily detached.
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Phylum Nemertea contains about 1,150 species of unsegmented worms that possess an eversible proboscis contained in a fluid-filled cavity or rhynchocoel.
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Short's prediction fitted the data beautifully, except for the proboscis monkey.
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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
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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
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But its head resembled nothing more than a game bird's, with its pallid pimply skin and pronounced proboscis, or beak.
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He is enormous, with a caveman's backward-sloping brow, a hawklike proboscis, and a lumbering walk.
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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
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The female mosquitoes become the bloodsuckers, and they use their long proboscis to bite other animals and feed on their blood.
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In 1862, Charles Darwin correctly predicted that the Christmas star orchid, which is endemic to Madagascar, was pollinated by a moth with a 30cm-long proboscis.
Unique night-flowering orchid found
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When the proboscis has reached the end of the spur, its basal portion depresses the little hinged rostellum that covers the saddle-shaped sticky glands to which the pollen masses (pollinia) are attached.
Darwinism (1889)
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Its remarkable fidelity enabled him to recognize that I was wrong: the segmented worm with a proboscis probably is not a nematode, but an annelid.
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Maxillary tendons: two slender rods in basal third of the muscid proboscis the remnant of the palpifer, to which muscles for flexing the proboscis are attached: see lora.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
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With the notochord he homologised the supporting rod in the proboscis of _Balanoglossus_, which like the notochord arises from the dorsal wall of the archenteron, and has a vacuolated structure.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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A big bull elephant seal had been lying there sleeping when another cruised up like a submarine, inflating its huge proboscis and blowing bad breath in a deep growl.
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Having experienced unspoilt forest and encountered proboscis monkeys, I found myself face-to-face with a green wall of spikey fronged oil palms.
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Distinguished by its prominent nose, the endangered proboscis monkey lives only on the island of Borneo, where deforestation threatens its continued existence in the wild.
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A temulent bee is more likely to stick out its tongue, or proboscis.
Archive 2007-11-01
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Lora: the chitinous bands connecting the submentum with the cardo of maxilla (Comst.): the submentum: small cords upon which the base of the proboscis is seated (Say): the anterior part of the genae at the edge of the mouth: the corneous processes to which the muscles flexing the mouth in certain Diptera are attached, and in that sense the palpifer of the maxilla: in Homoptera, the small sclerite at side of clypeus and front, extending laterally to the genae.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
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A species having a proboscis two or three inches longer could reach the nectar in the largest flowers of Angræcum sesquipedale, whose nectaries vary in length from ten to fourteen inches.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
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The proboscis is the part of the head that the bug uses to feed on its prey.
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Or if the growth of the probosces of the moths had from other causes increased quicker than that of the nectary, or if the increased length of proboscis had been injurious to them in any way, or if the species of moth with the longest proboscis had become much diminished by some enemy or other unfavourable conditions, then, in any of these cases, the shorter nectaried flowers, which would have attracted and could have been fertilized by the smaller kinds of moths, would have had the advantage.
Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays
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Next, it extends its proboscis, a beak neatly folded under its head, and pierces the skin of its victim.
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The female mosquitoes become the bloodsuckers, and they use their long proboscis to bite other animals and feed on their blood.
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We all know where the bees go to fetch their honey, and how, when a bee settles on a flower, she thrusts into it her small tongue-like proboscis, which is really
The Fairy-Land of Science
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In even more advanced forms the proboscis rhythmically moved from one side of the trail to another.
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The female mosquitoes become the bloodsuckers, and they use their long proboscis to bite other animals and feed on their blood.
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They are carnivorous, scavenging among carrion or preying on other molluscs, using their extensible proboscis, tipped with a radula, to reach into and extract nourishment from their victims.
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The head has two compound eyes, an antennae to sense chemicals and the mouth parts called the palpus and proboscis.
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It uses its trunk, or proboscis, to gather food and water and also to play, fight, feel its surroundings and detect smells.
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When the proboscis is not in uses, it is folded down into a groove called the prosternum.
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