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proboscis

noun
/pɹə(ʊ)ˈbɒs(k)ɪs/UK/pɹoʊˈbɑs(k)ɪs/US/pɹoʊˈbɒs(k)ɪs/CA/pɹəʉˈbɔs(k)ɪs/

Etymology

From Latin proboscis, from Ancient Greek προβοσκίς (proboskís, “elephant's trunk”) literally "means for taking food," from προ- (pro-, “before”) + βόσκω (bóskō, “to nourish, feed”), from the Proto-Indo-European root *gʷeh₃- from which also comes βοτάνη (botánē, “grass, fodder”).

  1. derived from προβοσκίς — “elephant's trunk”
  2. derived from proboscis

Definitions

  1. An elongated tube from the head or connected to the mouth, of an animal.

    • 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.

  2. A large or lengthy human nose.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for proboscis. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA