Proboscides Sentence Examples
proboscides
B, head showing the suckers, proboscides and excretory canals; X 25.
Internal to the suckers are the four complex hooked proboscides.
Both genera are characterized by their habit of secreting a tubular gelatinoid investment, the "coenoecium," composed of a number of superposed lamellae, doubtless the result of its intermittent secretion, mainly though perhaps not exclusively, by the proboscides of the zooids.
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