proboscises

Noun

proboscis (plural proboscises or proboscides or probosces)

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.2025 June 25, Elle Hunt, “From Chimpanzini Bananini to Ballerina Cappuccina: how gen alpha went wild for Italian brain rot animals”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
   1. The tubular feeding and sucking organ of certain invertebrates like insects, worms and molluscs.
      • 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...2012, Brian Wiegmann, The Evolutionary Biology of Flies, page 225
   2. The trunk of an elephant.
2. (humorous, informal, mildly) A large or lengthy human nose.