Dictionary Entry
proboscis
proboscis is a 9-letter English word with 5 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A hollow organ or tube attached to the head, or connected with the mouth, of various animals, and generally used in taking food or drink; a snout; a trunk. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 18 · 5 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A hollow organ or tube attached to the head, or connected with the mouth, of various animals, and generally used in taking food or drink; a snout; a trunk.
- 2noun
By extension, applied to various tubelike mouth organs of the lower animals that can be everted or protruded.
- 3noun
The nose.
- 4noun
a long flexible snout as of an elephant
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- 5noun
the human nose (especially when it is large)
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