proboscis

plural proboscises · plural proboscides · plural probosces

1. anatomyAn 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. anatomyThe tubular feeding and sucking organ of certain invertebrates like insects, worms and molluscs.

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      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).

      2012, Brian Wiegmann, The Evolutionary Biology of Flies, page 225

   2. anatomyThe trunk of an elephant.
2. humorousinformalmildlyA large or lengthy human nose.