proboscis
English Thesaurus
1. a long flexible snout as of an elephant (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | neb, snout, |
| definition | : | a long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head; especially the nose (noun.animal) |
| part meronym | : | elephant, |
| definition | : | five-toed pachyderm (noun.animal) |
| part meronym | : | mammoth, |
| definition | : | any of numerous extinct elephants widely distributed in the Pleistocene; extremely large with hairy coats and long upcurved tusks (noun.animal) |
2. the human nose (especially when it is large) (noun.body)
| hypernym | : | nose, olfactory organ, |
| definition | : | the organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract; the prominent part of the face of man or other mammals (noun.body) |
| domain usage | : | colloquialism, |
| definition | : | a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech (noun.communication) |
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