proboscoid

English

Adjective

proboscoid (comparative more proboscoid, superlative most proboscoid)

1. Shaped like a nose or proboscis.
   • 1939, Edwin Bunting Bartram, Mosses of the Philippines, page 94:

     Abnormal leaves more oblong in outline, contracted toward apex in a proboscoid point bearing numerous fusiform, septate gemmae.

   • 207, Melvin A. Shiffman, editor, Pediatric Umbilical Reconstruction: Principles and Techniques, page 69:

     We aim to design a technique of umbilicoplasty for cases of proboscoid umbilical hernia in children that can be safe and easy with outcome resembling the normal-looking midline scar.