Word: proboscises
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Dr. Bodenstein cut off the circulation of the substance back of the pupa's head.* The head and shoulders metamorphosed normally, the mouth lost its caterpillar jaws and acquired a honey-sucking proboscis, the shoulders sprouted wings. But the body, deprived of the stimulus, remained frozen in the pupal...
In "Sally, Irene, and Mary," now at the Metropolitan, Alice Faye and Tony Martin rub noses, Fred Allen climbs a lamp post, Joan Davis goes into unbelievable contortions while tap dancing, and Jimmy Durante, back in films with his cigar and his proboscis, does his traditional "Again-You Turn-a...
Borneo (20th Century-Fox). The late Martin Johnson's last jungle-tripping picture, replete with proboscis monkeys, muddy Borneo rivers and Osa (Mrs. Johnson).
"Why I pay those guys 250 bucks apicco every week just to get gags for my radio script", Jimmy said as he wiped a wandering smear of soap from the end of his proboscis, "and do you know what they do? Why they just subcirbe to college magazines and cut...
Goliath and Roland were Southern Sea Elephants or Elephant Seals (Mirunga patagonica), an immensely overgrown genus of seal whose adult males grow a short, useless proboscis. They breed on lonely southern islands, the Falklands off South America, Kerguelen off the Cape of Good Hope, the Macquaries off Australia, commute to...