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Proboscidate
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proboscidate
proboscidate
English
Adjective
proboscidate (comparative more proboscidate, superlative most proboscidate)
- (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.
- 1972, Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, McGraw-Hill 1972, pp. 40-1: