Crossword-Solution: PROBOSCIS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Proboscis | n. | 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. |
| Proboscis | n. | By extension, applied to various tubelike mouth organs of the lower animals that can be everted or protruded. |
| Proboscis | n. | The nose. |
We have 25 clues for the answer “PROBOSCIS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Schnoz like Durante's | 1 answer |
| Notable nose | 1 answer |
| Long flexible snout | 1 answer |
| Insect feeder | 1 answer |
| Elephant's trunk. | 1 answer |
| nasus | 6 answers |
| nasi | 6 answers |
| Schnoz | 8 answers |
| Schnozzola | 10 answers |
| snout | 14 answers |
| Neb | 16 answers |
| Trunk | 17 answers |
| INSECT, part of | 28 answers |
| forepart | 29 answers |
| Schnozzle | 30 answers |
| nuzzle | 36 answers |
| Conk | 36 answers |
| Nozzle | 42 answers |
| Beak | 43 answers |
| Protuberance | 45 answers |
| Muzzle | 51 answers |
| Nose | 54 answers |
| Root | 57 answers |
| Point | 69 answers |
| Probe | 75 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PROBOSCIS (5)
His face was composed and occupied, but his nose-tip still had the air of being the most mobile part of his face, as if it had just turned from left to right like an elephant’s proboscis.
They suck the sap of plants by means of a tubular proboscis, and owing to the wonderful rapidity of their reproduction become very destructive to vegetation.
But surely the more we pry into the methods by which results are brougt{sic} about, the more stupendous and wonderful becomes the great unseen power which lies behind, the power which drifts the solar system in safety through space, and yet adjusts the length of the insects proboscis to the depth of the honey-bearing flower.
For finding the mouth of the Turritella too big for him, he has plastered it up with sand and mud (Heaven alone knows how), just as a wry-neck plasters up a hole in an apple-tree when she intends to build therein, and has left only a round hole, out of which he can poke his proboscis.
But the creature's hide was invulnerable to his blows, and he pecked at his legs with his proboscis until he jumped into bed again, groaning, and covered himself up; after which the tapir contented himself with now and then paying a visit to his toes.
Quotes with PROBOSCIS (1)
Right now, Youngster, you remind me of a mosquito buzzing over what she thinks is a nice, normal, juicy vein, angling to swoop down, stick in the old proboscis and suck up some blood to take back to the kids. Little does she know that she's hovering over an artery and when she sticks it in, she will be exploded by a back draft of arterial spray." - Chris Harvey
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, Universal.
Used 10 times in crossword archives (1954–2016).