proboscis — meaning in English
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English meaning
- trunk verb To cut something short or reduce it drastically.
Senses
proboscis is used for these senses in English:
- trunk The conspicuously extended, mobile, nose-like organ of an animal such as a sengi, a tapir or especially an elephant. The trunks of various kinds of animals might be adapted to probing and sniffing, as in the sengis, or be partly prehensile, as in the tapir, or be a versatile prehensile organ for manipulation, feeding, drinking and fighting as in the elephant.
trunk — full definition
- verb To cut something short or reduce it drastically.
- verb In telecoms, to carry many signals together over a shared set of lines.