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proboscis -- Elongated organ, usually associated with the mouth. The proboscis is an important feeding appendage in echiurans.
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proboscis A snout or trunk. Also, tubular sucking or feeding organ with the mouth at the end as in planarians, leeches, and insects. Also, the sensory and defensive organ at the anterior end of certain invertebrates.
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proboscis
The elongated mouthparts of some insects.
Covered in Lab 12 Animal Diversity III ...
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the proboscis with which the bee feeds on liquid food, either the nectar of flowers or the honey stored within the hive.
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Ribbon worms have a distinctive eversible proboscis stored in a rhynchocoel; when the walls of the rhynchocoel are contracted, the proboscis is extended out of the body.
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Bee pollination on Sunflower
Madagascar orchid requires a moth with a 30 cm (1 ft) long proboscis
Beetles pollinate cycads.
Zoophily: pollination by animals such as birds or bats ...
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Beak: Colloquial expression for the protruding mouthpart structures of a sucking insect (= proboscis).
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