Sentence examples for proboscis I from inspiring English sources

The pterobranch body, like that of the related acorn worm, can be divided into three regions: a proboscis (i.e., a tubular sucking organ); a collar with tentacles used to filter food, usually small planktonic plants and animals, from the surrounding water; and a trunk containing a U-shaped gut.

For example, in the hematophagous mosquitoes An. gambiae and Aedes aegypti, Or83b orthologs are expressed in the antennae, legs and proboscis (i.e., general gustatory organs).

Theresa's surgery to correct scoliosis, which leaves her with a scar that inflames her sexual insecurity, occasions one of the more arresting songs, with Mr. Townley donning a bizarre yarn robe with a pronounced proboscis (I think) to play a sinister-seeming doctor.

After a bee associates an odor with a reward, the presentation of this odor alone triggers the proboscis extension response, i.e. the conditioned response (CR) [26], [28].

Two kinds of sensilla are present at the proboscis tip in Eurybia lycisca, i.e. very short bristle-shaped sensilla and short basiconica-like sensilla.

I liked the PROBOSCIS sticking out at 3 Down, and the somewhat Scrabbly northeast.

Different body parts, i.e. legs, proboscis, and abdomens, of both species showed qualitatively similar hydrocarbon profiles consisting mainly of long-chain monoenes, dienes, trienes, and tetraenes.

In Papilionoidea, i.e. the true butterflies, the proboscis normally measures about two-thirds of the body length in species from Europe (Paulus and Krenn, 1996) and about 80% of body length in Neotropical butterflies (Kunte, 2007).

In a day or two, we should begin to learn whether the first lady deserves the repute imputed to her, or whether I deserve a pop on the proboscis soon after noon on Jan . 20 , 2001

His tail feathers are fanned out, he is making an alarming noise similar to a police siren and is shaking his blood-red proboscis at me - all classic signals, so I'm told, that he's hitting on me.

This decrease can be explained by the spontaneous retraction of the proboscis occurring in some bees after the end of feeding (i.e. not all the bees release a long-lasting PER).