proboscis

Mosquitoes have six legs, a pair of wings, compound eyes, large antennae, and that problematic proboscis with which the females suck blood.

swift predatory fly having a strong body like a bee with the proboscis hardened for sucking juices of other insects captured on the wing.

The proboscis had a set of grasping claws on the end, which were used to grab food and stuff it into Opabinia's mouth.

any of various worms living parasitically in intestines of vertebrates having a retractile proboscis covered with many hooked spines.

any of two families of small parasitic arachnids with barbed proboscis ; feed on blood of warm-blooded animals.

After only one or two trials, many bees learned to stick out their tonguelike proboscis in anticipation of a sugary droplet.

Sometimes I try to get through using only one part (like the jet or the proboscis ).

Capable of being thrust outward, as the proboscis of many insects.

When stimulated, it spits out milk-white proboscis which resembles branches of a tree.

And they've evolved with a long proboscis to get the nectar at the bottom.

It sticks its little proboscis in and just stays right there, bathed in bliss.

A liplike part, such as the TIP of the proboscis of various insects, used for lapping up liquids.

Once its prey is helpless, the cone snail retracts it through its proboscis until it engulfs the fish, swallowing it whole.

Located on the lower Kinabatangan River, the Sukau rainforest teems with wildlife, the star attraction being the proboscis monkey.

They prey on other invertebrates, which they capture with a unique proboscis.

When a mosquito bites, it uses a long mouth tube, called a proboscis, to poke through your skin.

soft unsegmented marine worms having a threadlike proboscis and the ability to stretch and contract.

The active upper proboscis was riveted with the lower proboscis .

The male proboscis monkey has a pendulous, vaguely salacious Jimmy Durante nose.

Its proboscis works like a syringe to draw out blood.

two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans and animals.

It hovers in front of the flower, using its proboscis to look for nectar.

Methods 4 cases of proboscis lateralis sharing the same type of deformity were observed.

"It usesits proboscis to puncture sea anemones and suck out fluids, " Sones says.

A portion of the proboscis that is adapted as a sucking organ in many insects.

proboscis The elongated mouth parts or snout of some animals.

It uses its proboscis for sensing at close range.

Proboscis Monkeys and fireflies, 1 afternoon tea, 1 buffet local cuisine dinner.

To study evolution, Jason Munshi-South has tracked elephants in central Africa and proboscis monkeys in the wilds of Borneo.

Some even claim that the ancient had been witnessed this monster, Some said it has the elephant's long proboscis, soft and smooth;

the common ancestor of introverts may has a retractable proboscis

Discovery of the proboscis on tylotites petiolaris