1. A long flexible snout as of an elephant
   "The butterfly extended its proboscis to sip nectar from the flower";
   - trunk
    
2. The human nose (especially when it is large)
   "His prominent proboscis was the subject of many caricatures"

Derived forms: proboscides, probosces, proboscises

Type of: beak [informal], conk [Brit, informal], honker [informal], hooter [informal], neb, nose, nozzle [informal], olfactory organ, schnoz [informal], schnozzle [informal], snoot [informal], snout

Part of: elephant, mammoth

Encyclopedia: Proboscis