| In addition to the thorny proboscis, acanthocephalans are distinguished morphologically as cylindrical and unsegmented worms. |
| The thick, sculptured lip of the tulip shell is used to chip a hole in the prey's shell, then the proboscis is inserted. |
| An anterior region bears, besides the proboscis, three or four pairs of appendages, including the first pair of walking legs. |
| Among Asian colobines are Borneo's proboscis monkey, the Chinese snub-nosed monkeys and langurs, such as the douc of South-east Asia. |
| With her pointy-witch proboscis, she gurns and sneers at her audience like a ringmaster gripped by mad cow disease. |
| They feed by sucking juices from soft-bodied invertebrates through a long proboscis. |
