proboscidate
English
editEtymology
editFrom the stem of Latin proboscis + -ate.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editproboscidate (comparative more proboscidate, superlative most proboscidate)
- (chiefly zoology) Having, or shaped like, a proboscis.
- 1972, Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, McGraw-Hill, published 1972, pages 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.