
thumb|A Hoverfly|syrphid fly using its proboscis to reach the nectar of a flower
thumb|A Hoverfly|syrphid fly using its proboscis to reach the nectar of a flower
A proboscis () is an elongated appendage from the head of an animal, either a vertebrate or an invertebrate. In invertebrates, the term usually refers to tubular mouthparts used for feeding and sucking. In vertebrates, a proboscis is an elongated nose or snout.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).