Example sentences for: proboscis

How can you use “proboscis” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • But a bumblebee with a long proboscis can also exploit shallow flowers, and, to some extent, a bumblebee with a short proboscis can exploit deep flowers, if corollas are not too deep (although they will still leave some nectar behind).

  • Proboscis monkey.

  • For example, when several species of bumblebees coexist, resource partitioning normally doesn't follow colour, but is dependent on different parameters: the corolla length of the plant and the proboscis length of the bee.

  • Proboscis length affects the efficiency with which flowers of different depth are exploited (Inouye 1980); bumblebees with long proboscises preferentially exploit flowers with deep corollas, while bumblebees with short proboscises exploit shallow flowers (Heinrich 1976).

  • The female’s nose is an unremarkable little snub, but zoologists say that she appreciates, and is even aroused by, the male’s proboscis.


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