PROBOSCIS

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

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.
n.

By extension, applied to various tubelike mouth organs of the lower animals that can be everted or protruded.

3.
n.

The nose. [Jocose] Proboscis monkey. (Zoöl.) See Kahau.