| An anterior region bears, besides the proboscis, three or four pairs of appendages, including the first pair of walking legs. |
| Having experienced unspoilt forest and encountered proboscis monkeys, I found myself face-to-face with a green wall of spikey fronged oil palms. |
| They feed by sucking juices from soft-bodied invertebrates through a long proboscis. |
| But its head resembled nothing more than a game bird's, with its pallid pimply skin and pronounced proboscis, or beak. |
| In addition to the thorny proboscis, acanthocephalans are distinguished morphologically as cylindrical and unsegmented worms. |
| With her pointy-witch proboscis, she gurns and sneers at her audience like a ringmaster gripped by mad cow disease. |
