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proboscis
1. It is only while its needle-like proboscis is embedded in the flesh that the fly can be caught
2. "Oh, so Hobart's told you stories about my Frederick has he?" Aunt Martha targeted me with her formidable proboscis, raising her eyebrows
3. Isn't that cool? This species has a tongue, or proboscis, that is 0
4. 0 inches long! If you think that's impressive, the meganosed fly, Moegistorhynchus longirostris, in the same family, has the longest proboscis of ANY fly in the world
5. Some of the largest moths in the world are in this family, and species' wingspans range from one to nearly 7 inches! Read the post about moths as pollinators for the story about the moth with the longest proboscis (tongue) in the world!
6. “The Northwest Coast tribes have some gruesome variations where the original monster, Mosquito Man, thrusts his proboscis into a person's head and sucks their brains out, often so surreptitiously that the people around him don't even notice their companion is dead
7. The Proboscis Monkey inhabits the Island of Borneo (an
8. Another unusual/prominent feature of the Proboscis is its
9. has listed Proboscis Monkeys as Endangered
10. Proboscis Monkeys have lost 50 percent of their habitat in the
11. com/the-proboscis-monkey Mudfooted: Proboscis Monkey
12. I didn’t recall walking into a wall or being in a bar fight – that itself could have been two reasons for my proboscis problem – so those causes were eliminated
13. loathsome object and dunked its proboscis in some of his
14. proboscis: the elongated, protruding mouth parts of certain insects, adapted for sucking or piercing
15. After several minutes of this she rolled Spock over and noticed that she had done a pleasurable job as a large proboscis was stood firmly to attention
16. A stork undead merged into an undead human entity, until the human’s nose becomes that of a stork: a huge, long proboscis
17. Among the articulates there were annelid worms one and a half meters long, furnished with a pink proboscis, equipped with 1,700 organs of locomotion, snaking through the waters, and as they went, throwing off every gleam in the solar spectrum
18. SOPHIST WALLOPS HAUGHTY HELEN SQUARE ON PROBOSCIS
19. Finally, she mixed some plaster, smeared some Vaseline on his nose, and took a cast of the proboscis
20. I gagged up the last cold inch of the draining proboscis and instantly took root in my own flesh again
21. Bearing such facts in mind, it may be believed that under certain circumstances individual differences in the curvature or length of the proboscis, etc
22. Thus, in a country where this kind of clover abounded, it might be a great advantage to the hive-bee to have a slightly longer or differently constructed proboscis
23. Why, in other quarters of the world, various animals belonging to this same order have not acquired either an elongated neck or a proboscis, cannot be distinctly answered; but it is as unreasonable to expect a distinct answer to such a question as why some event in the history of mankind did not occur in one country while it did in another
24. We can, however, see in a general manner that various causes might have interfered with the development of a long neck or proboscis
25. We see the same great law in the construction of the mouths of insects: what can be more different than the immensely long spiral proboscis of a sphinx-moth, the curious folded one of a bee or bug, and the great jaws of a beetle? Yet all these organs, serving for such widely different purposes, are formed by infinitely numerous modifications of an upper lip, mandibles, and two pairs of maxillae
26. Its colour is a dark brown; it has an elongated head, with a small and sharp proboscis; and is in size between the gnat and musqueto