proboscides
- plural of proboscis.
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Again, this seems incompatible with the presence of a trunk, as if sauropods had proboscides, wouldn’t they be grabbing foliage with the trunk tip, and then passing it into the mouth, over the teeth?
From Scientific American ● Nov. 20, 2012
Mammals with proboscides or inferred proboscides – I’m thinking tapirs, pyrotheres, astrapotheres, the stem-whale Makaracetus, some amynodontid rhinos, some oreodonts, Macrauchenia, dik-diks, saigas, desmans, sengis and so on – have narrow snouts.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 20, 2012
As we’ll see, and as is obvious if you look at the proboscides of extant mammals, there’s a lot more to having a trunk that having large, dorsally located nostrils.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 20, 2012
Naturally there will be mercantile proboscides dipping here and there, gleaning a little honey for the sweetening of the pots.
From Time Magazine Archive
They will work away with their forceps at a bit of sweetmeat, but they can absorb only liquids through their proboscides.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 by Various
