Meanings
adjectiveproboscidate (comparative more proboscidate, superlative most proboscidate)
comparative more proboscidate · superlative most proboscidate
- biologyHaving, or shaped like, a proboscis.
The visitor [...] returned several times to the pictures of little Armande in her bath, pressing a proboscidate rubber toy to her shiny stomach or standing up, dimple-bottomed, to be lathered.
1972, Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, McGraw-Hill, published 1972, pages 40–1
Origin
From Latin proboscis (proboscid- in compounds) + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
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