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Proboscis vs Proboscidate - What's the difference?

proboscis | proboscidate |

As a noun proboscis

is (anatomy) an elongated tube from the head or connected to the mouth, of an animal.

As an adjective proboscidate is

having, or shaped like, a proboscis.

proboscis

English

(wikipedia proboscis)

Noun

  • (anatomy) An elongated tube from the head or connected to the mouth, of an animal.
  • # The tubular feeding and sucking organ of certain invertebrates like insects, worms and molluscs.
  • # The trunk of an elephant.
  • (informal, mildly, jocular) A large or lengthy human nose.

    • Derived terms

    * proboscis monkey

    proboscidate

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having, or shaped like, a proboscis.
  • *1972 , Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things , McGraw-Hill 1972, pp. 40-1:
  • *:The visitor [...] returned several times to the pictures of little Armande in her bath, pressing a proboscidate rubber toy to her shiny stomach or standing up, dimple-bottomed, to be lathered.