Wondering how to use Proboscis in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as nose or trunk.
Proboscis meaning
- An elongated tube from the head or connected to the mouth, of an animal.
- The tubular feeding and sucking organ of certain invertebrates like insects, worms and molluscs.
Proboscis vertaling naar Nederlands
Using Proboscis
- The main meaning on this page is: An elongated tube from the head or connected to the mouth, of an animal. | An elongated tube from the head or connected to the mouth, of an animal. | The tubular feeding and sucking organ of certain invertebrates like insects, worms and molluscs.
- Useful related words include: nose, olfactory organ, trunk, snout.
- Possible Dutch translations are: slurf.
- In the example corpus, proboscis often appears in combinations such as: the proboscis, proboscis and, proboscis is.
Context around Proboscis
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 10 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Proboscis
- In this selection, "proboscis" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, long, monkey, jump and pore stand out and add context to how "proboscis" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a proboscis monkey s and bee s proboscis. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "proboscis" sits close to words such as abm, adsl and adua, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with proboscis
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Butterflies primarily eat nectar from flowers using their long, tube-like proboscis. (12 words)
That proboscis jutting out of our faces does a truly important function. (12 words)
Another notable primate is the proboscis monkey (a Sarawakian and Malaysian tourism icon). (13 words)
When muscles in the wall of the rhynchocoel compress the fluid in the rhynchocoel, the pressure makes the proboscis jump inside-out to attack the animal's prey along a canal called the rhynchodeum and through an orifice, the proboscis pore. (41 words)
The hooks may be of two or three shapes, usually, longer, more slender hooks are arranged along the length of the proboscis, with several rows of more sturdy, shorter nasal hooks around the base of the proboscis. (37 words)
Dominant male elephant seals advertise their status and threaten rivals with "clap-threats" and loud drum-like calls that may be modified by the proboscis. citation Male otariids have strong barks, growls, roars and "whickers". (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
Proboscis and feeding The proboscis is an infolding of the body wall, and sits in the rhynchocoel when inactive.
The fluid in the rhynchocoel moves substances to and from the proboscis, and functions as a fluid skeleton in everting the proboscis and in burrowing.
The hooks may be of two or three shapes, usually, longer, more slender hooks are arranged along the length of the proboscis, with several rows of more sturdy, shorter nasal hooks around the base of the proboscis.
The proboscis can be very long; in the case of the Japanese species Ikeda taenioides, the proboscis can be convert long while the body is only convert.
The proboscis has a muscle which attaches to the back of the rhynchocoel, and which can stretch up to 30 times its inactive length and then retract the proboscis.
Traversing the cavity of the proboscis are muscle -strands inserted into the tip of the proboscis at one end and into the septum at the other.
When muscles in the wall of the rhynchocoel compress the fluid in the rhynchocoel, the pressure makes the proboscis jump inside-out to attack the animal's prey along a canal called the rhynchodeum and through an orifice, the proboscis pore.
Moths, which have long sucking mouthparts called a proboscis, can reach this nectar easily.
A proboscis monkey's nose can dangle past their mouths, and Dr Balolia would not be surprised if they only got bigger.
Butterflies primarily eat nectar from flowers using their long, tube-like proboscis.
With the klotok tied up for the night, the proboscis monkey show entertains as light fades.
Another notable primate is the proboscis monkey (a Sarawakian and Malaysian tourism icon).
A recently discovered 200-million-year-old serrated hollow scale derived from a proboscis-bearing moth.
A spokesperson said: “It appears there is a risk that people make it too strong and it blocks the bee’s proboscis.
That proboscis jutting out of our faces does a truly important function.
The Giant Amazon leech, which can grow to 45cm long, feeds by inserting a proboscis - like a 10cm-long straw - into its prey.
Accordingly, their mouthparts do not require the same degree of specialization as those of females. citation Externally, the most obvious feeding structure of the mosquito is the proboscis.
Anatomy Bombus muscorum drinking nectar with its long proboscis Hymenopterans range in size from very small to large insects, and usually have two pairs of wings.
A very stretchy muscle in the back of the rhynchocoel pulls the proboscis in when an attack ends.
Dominant male elephant seals advertise their status and threaten rivals with "clap-threats" and loud drum-like calls that may be modified by the proboscis. citation Male otariids have strong barks, growls, roars and "whickers".
Common combinations with proboscis
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the proboscis 41×
- proboscis and 8×
- proboscis is 5×
- proboscis can 3×
- proboscis in 3×
- proboscis of 3×
- proboscis with 2×
- proboscis monkey 2×
- proboscis sheath 2×
- its proboscis 2×