What is "proboscises"

Usage examples of "proboscises".

The touch of their hot abdomens stung more than the stab of their proboscises, but such was the price of service.

The red-haired woman aligned herself with Ylenic, while the Anzati, with his proboscises just beginning to peek from the cheek pouches that hid them, lined up to oppose me.

The absence of visible arms, claws, tentacles, extrudable proboscises, or other gripping appendages was encouraging, but despite this he doubted he could fight off all nine of them should they choose to attack as a pack.

They rise on those thin wings, their heads hunkered, their hips and limbs loose beneath them, dangling in the air like puppets suspended from their elongated shoulderblades, their dark proboscises still wet and extended.

With their proboscises retracted, their mouths are much more like ours.

He had no idea what the aliens looked like, but formed a mental picture of huge sluglike monsters whose proboscises sucked out the guts of human beings.

If he thought to wrap himself in his cloak and sleep in the open, he thereupon became prey for visps, which stood nine feet tall and looked across the night through luminous pink eyes, and traced the scent of flesh by means of two flexible proboscises growing from each side of their scalp-crest.

But what especially alarmed him was that they were equipped with proboscises that looked like daggers.