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• n  the human nose (especially when it is large)
• n  a long flexible snout as of an elephant

• Comfortably established and drinking hot tea last week in the San Diego Zoo were a pair of proboscis monkeys from Borneo.
• The colossal insect pokes its proboscis into a heap of "sugar," flaps its wings fearsomely.
• It had this weird proboscis out front and a bulky, glass cabin in back, and the whole thing was situated on dwarfish wheels.

• trunk

News & Articles

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• Susan Reinhardt on her daughter's nose piercing
  Call me a terrible mother. Call me too liberal. But I did what I had to do to fulfill my TPP — Tattoo Prevention Plan. Plus, it’s just not financially possible for me to get Teen Daughter a nose job at this point, and I feel bad she inherited the Proboscis Grandis gene.
  June 9, 2013 - Asheville Citizen-Times

Quotes

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• Henry James in Jerusalem Post
  The novelist Henry James wrote of the Lower East Side in The American Scene: "It was like being at the bottom of some vast aquarium surrounded by innumerable fish with overdeveloped proboscis bumping together:Here was multiplication with a...