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Webster 1913 Edition


Proboscidate

Pro-bos′ci-date

,
Adj.
[See
Proboscis
.]
(Zool.)
Having a proboscis; proboscidial.

Definition 2024


proboscidate

proboscidate

English

Adjective

proboscidate (comparative more proboscidate, superlative most proboscidate)

  1. (chiefly zoology) Having, or shaped like, a proboscis.
    • 1972, Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, McGraw-Hill 1972, pp. 40-1:
      The visitor [...] returned several times to the pictures of little Armande in her bath, pressing a proboscidate rubber toy to her shiny stomach or standing up, dimple-bottomed, to be lathered.