Proboscis is valid Scrabble Word

Is proboscis a scrabble word?
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9 letters word
15 points in Scrabble
18 points in WWF

Definitions for PROBOSCIS in dictionary:

NOUN:

an elongated organ, usually associated with the mouth
the nose of a mammal, especially when it is long and mobile such as the trunk of an elephant or the snout of a tapir.
(in many insects) an elongated sucking mouthpart that is typically tubular and flexible.
(in some worms) an extensible tubular sucking organ.
long trunk or snout
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.
By extension, applied to various tubelike mouth organs of the lower animals that can be everted or protruded.
The nose.
the human nose (especially when it is large)
a long flexible snout as of an elephant

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

the trunk of an elephant; any long flexible snout; the human nose especially when prominent

Words related to PROBOSCIS

proboscides18 proboscises17

Words that contain PROBOSCIS

proboscises17

How to use PROBOSCIS in a sentence

Its sting is hardly so annoying as that of the mosquito, but near the base of its proboscis is a little bag containing the fatal poison.
It has six feet, two eyes, and a sort of sting, proboscis, or sucker, with which it pierces the skin, and sucks the blood.
They are mottled grey in colour, and their proboscis sticks out straight in front.
One of them, a round one, fell on the floor, just out of the reach of his proboscis.
Prosecuting my observations along the upper surface, I next came to the proboscis, which suggested the idea of a Bologna sausage after a passage through a cotton-press.
He has no proboscis like a butterfly to insert and suck with.
The bug is provided with a proboscis, which when at rest lies along the inferior side of the thorax, and through which it sucks the blood of man, the sole food of this species.
It has a less powerful proboscis than the Malay species.
The retort happily hit the mark, for the fellow was the possessor of a richly tinted proboscis of carmine hue, that was somewhat of a landmark in the village.
He perched his nose-glasses far down on his pointed proboscis, and glared over them in a way he had when he was endeavoring to appear very impressive before a class.

They are met at the sides by the lateral longitudinal muscles, which blend, and their fibres run the whole length of the proboscis down to the extremity.
Alas, the comstockian proboscis, feeling for such offendings, is not as alert as when uncovering more savoury delicacies.
Thus it might be a great advantage to the hive-bee to have a slightly longer or differently constructed proboscis.
Then I met uncle, and telling him that I had a wonderful box of antiques to exhibit, he gave me sixpence, and with great curiosity poked his proboscis against the glass.

Similar words containing PROBOSCI without suffix s

proboscides18 proboscises17 proboscidean19 proboscidian19 proboscideans20 proboscidians20

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