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On the underside of the head is the paired proboscis, which is used to suck nectar from flowers.
They feed by sucking juices from soft-bodied invertebrates through a long proboscis.
An anterior region bears, besides the proboscis, three or four pairs of appendages, including the first pair of walking legs.
Next, it extends its proboscis, a beak neatly folded under its head, and pierces the skin of its victim.
In even more advanced forms the proboscis rhythmically moved from one side of the trail to another.
But its head resembled nothing more than a game bird's, with its pallid pimply skin and pronounced proboscis, or beak.
The proboscis is a synapomorphy of the taxon and is used primarily in prey capture.
In addition to the thorny proboscis, acanthocephalans are distinguished morphologically as cylindrical and unsegmented worms.
With her pointy-witch proboscis, she gurns and sneers at her audience like a ringmaster gripped by mad cow disease.
The thick, sculptured lip of the tulip shell is used to chip a hole in the prey's shell, then the proboscis is inserted.
Having experienced unspoilt forest and encountered proboscis monkeys, I found myself face-to-face with a green wall of spikey fronged oil palms.
Among Asian colobines are Borneo's proboscis monkey, the Chinese snub-nosed monkeys and langurs, such as the douc of South-east Asia.
Nemertines however, lack a protective cuticle or exoskeleton as well as stalked eyes, but have a characteristic eversible proboscis.
As the bee's proboscis is inserted into the flower it pushes past the retrorse anthers to the nectar at the base of the tube.
The backfill is of the same sediment as around the gallery and the proboscis cut is straight.
It uses its trunk, or proboscis, to gather food and water and also to play, fight, feel its surroundings and detect smells.
In filter-feeding tubicolous polychaetes the buccal cavity is not eversible and there is no proboscis.
All tapirs have a short, fleshy proboscis formed by the snout and upper lips.
The Alaska spoonworm is said to have a proboscis that is not easily detached.
He is enormous, with a caveman's backward-sloping brow, a hawklike proboscis, and a lumbering walk.
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Examples from Classical Literature
It will be noted that Fulgur has a comparatively long and stout proboscis, or snout, which is not retractile.
The principal characteristic of the nemertean worms is a long thread-like organ, known as the proboscis.
In specimens with the proboscis drawn in, the nerve cord is of course doubled back on itself.
The opening at the distal end of the proboscis, through which the endosarc is thrown out, is circular.
The piercing proboscis consists of three long needle-like organs, the epipharynx and mandibles, and a lower lip or labium.
The mouth is surrounded by tentacles, or by tentacular folds, and is at the base of the proboscis.
The elephant thrust his proboscis into the lake, which disturbed the reflection.
In the grub he has detected the rudiment of the wing and proboscis of the future being.
Between the oral openings of the two opposed rhinocann lies the proboscis of the central capsule.
In the case of both of these genera the mouth is situated at the end of a proboscis.
The scarcest monkey in Borneo is the proboscis, or long-nosed.
The connection with the proboscis of the gallinipper is especially apt.
A curious thing is this proboscis, when seen through the magnifier.
The proboscis is slender, hollow, muscular, and full of nerves.
He tried his proboscis upon one curiosity after another, in vain.
Thus it might be a great advantage to the hive-bee to have a slightly longer or differently constructed proboscis.
The strangest portion of the Elephant is the trunk, or proboscis.
They have a large siphon and a fairly large and extensible proboscis.
In the wild, a honeybee extends its tonguelike proboscis when it happens upon preferred flower types, which it learns to identify by smell.
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