Male elephant seals can be easily identified by their large proboscis, which resembles an elephant’s trunk (and is the source of their name).
Source: tatoeba (12363170)
Proboscis
//pɹə(ʊ)ˈbɒs(k)ɪs//
Synonyms for "proboscis" (26 found)
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40 translations across 31 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- خُرْطُوم noun (elongated tube)
Armenian
1 entries- կնճիթ noun (elongated tube)
Bulgarian
1 entries- хобот noun (elongated tube)
Catalan
1 entries- probòscide noun (elongated tube)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 吻 noun (elongated tube)
- 象鼻 noun (elongated tube)
- 長鼻 /长鼻 noun (elongated tube)
Czech
1 entries- sosák noun (elongated tube)
Dutch
1 entries- slurf noun (elongated tube)
Esperanto
1 entries- rostro noun (elongated tube)
Finnish
2 entries- imukärsä noun (elongated tube)
- kärsä noun (elongated tube)
French
2 entries- proboscide noun (elongated tube)
- trompe noun (elongated tube)
German
1 entries- Rüssel noun (elongated tube)
Hebrew
1 entries- חֵדֶק noun (elongated tube)
Hungarian
2 entries- ormány noun (elongated tube)
- pödörnyelv noun (elongated tube)
Ido
1 entries- rostro noun (elongated tube)
Irish
1 entries- próboscas noun (elongated tube)
Italian
1 entries- proboscide noun (elongated tube)
Japanese
1 entries- 吻 noun (elongated tube)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- snabel noun (elongated tube)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- snabel noun (elongated tube)
Occitan
1 entries- proboscide noun (elongated tube)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- خرطوم noun (elongated tube)
Polish
1 entries- ssawka noun (elongated tube)
Portuguese
2 entries- probóscida noun (elongated tube)
- probóscide noun (elongated tube)
Romanian
1 entries- proboscidă noun (elongated tube)
Russian
2 entries- хо́бот noun (elongated tube)
- хобото́к noun (elongated tube)
Slovak
1 entries- cuciak noun (elongated tube)
Spanish
1 entries- probóscide noun (elongated tube)
Swedish
1 entries- snabel noun (elongated tube)
Ukrainian
1 entries- хобото́к noun (elongated tube)
Volapük
2 entries- probod noun (elongated tube)
- sugaprobod noun (elongated tube)
Welsh
2 entries- sugnydd noun (elongated tube)
- trwnc noun (elongated tube)
Sample sentences
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Males begin developing this enlarged nose, or proboscis, at sexual maturity (about three to five years of age) and it is fully developed by seven to nine years.
Source: tatoeba (12363357)
Don Caldwell, editor-in-chief of the site Know Your Meme, namechecks Brr Brr Patapim, “a proboscis monkey that is also a tree”, as one who made it to YouTube.
Source: wiktionary
Unlike the proboscides of Lower brachyceran lineages, which are continuous with the head capsule and tend to dangle (Matsuda 1965), the proboscides of most cyclorrhaphan species are suspended by a membranous region and divided into three functional parts: the basiproboscis (rostrum), medioproboscis (haustellum), and distiproboscis (labellum), each of which is defined by internal muscles but also shares muscles with the other regions (Graham-Smith 1930; Lall and Davies 1971).
Source: wiktionary
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