proboscoid

comparative more proboscoid · superlative most proboscoid

1. Shaped like a nose or proboscis.

   Abnormal leaves more oblong in outline, contracted toward apex in a proboscoid point bearing numerous fusiform, septate gemmae.

   1939, Edwin Bunting Bartram, Mosses of the Philippines, page 94

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   We aim to design a technique of umbilicoplasty for cases of proboscoid umbilical hernia in children that can be safe and easy with outcome resembling the normal-looking midline scar.

   207, Melvin A. Shiffman, editor, Pediatric Umbilical Reconstruction: Principles and Techniques, page 69