proboscis

A long flexible snout or trunk, as of an elephant.

A slender, tubular organ in the head region of an invertebrate, such as certain insects and worms, usually used for sucking or piercing.

A human nose, especially a prominent one.

An elephant’s trunk; hence, a long flexible snout, as the tapir’s, or the nose of the proboscis-monkey. See cut under Nasalis.

Any proboscidiform part or organ: anything that sticks out in front of an animal like an elephant’s trunk. See cut under Cystophorinæ.

A hollow organ or tube attached to the head, or connected with the mouth, of various animals, and generally used in taking food or drink; a snout; a trunk.

By extension, applied to various tubelike mouth organs of the lower animals that can be everted or protruded.

The nose.

See Kahau.

An elongated tube from the head or connected to the mouth, of an animal.