proboscoid
English
Adjective
proboscoid (comparative more proboscoid, superlative most proboscoid)
- Shaped like a nose or proboscis.
- 1939, Edwin Bunting Bartram, Mosses of the Philippines, page 94:
- Abnormal leaves more oblong in outline, contracted toward apex in a proboscoid point bearing numerous fusiform, septate gemmae.
- 207, Melvin A. Shiffman, editor, Pediatric Umbilical Reconstruction: Principles and Techniques, page 69:
- We aim to design a technique of umbilicoplasty for cases of proboscoid umbilical hernia in children that can be safe and easy with outcome resembling the normal-looking midline scar.
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