proboscis

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /pɹə(ʊ)ˈbɒs(k)ɪs/    美 /pɹoʊˈbɑs(k)ɪs/|/pɹəʉˈbɔs(k)ɪs/

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.
  2. An elongated tube from the head or connected to the mouth, of an animal.; 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 (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).
  3. An elongated tube from the head or connected to the mouth, of an animal.; The trunk of an elephant.
  4. A large or lengthy human nose. humorous,informal,mildly

词形变化

proboscises plural proboscides plural probosces plural

词汇关系

衍生词
probosciform proboscislike proboscis monkey proboscis worm

词源

From Latin proboscis, from Ancient Greek προβοσκίς (proboskís, “elephant's trunk”) literally "means for taking food," from προ- (pro-, “before”) + βόσκω (bóskō, “to nourish, feed”), from the Proto-Indo-European root *gʷeh₃- from which also comes βοτάνη (botánē, “grass, fodder”).
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