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‖ promuscis|prəʊˈmʌsɪs|
[L., altered form of proboscis. Cf. obs. F. promuscide (1536 in Godef.).]
†1. The proboscis or trunk of an elephant. Obs.
[1576: see proboscis 1.] 1600J. Pory tr. Leo's Africa Introd. 40 The elephant..will stande vp to the mid-body therein, bathing the ridge of his backe, and other parts with his long promuscis or trunke. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 153 His trunck called Proboscis and Promuscis, is a large hollow thing hanging from his nose. 1709Blair in Phil. Trans. XXVII. 56 The Proboscis (or Promuscis, as some call it, in English the Trunk).
2. Entom. The proboscis in certain orders of insects: cf. proboscis 3; spec. that of the Hymenoptera: see quots. 1826–8.
1658Rowland Moufet's Theat. Ins. 962 It hath very long cornicles, and the promuscis or snout doubled in or rolled up together. Ibid. 990 A long kinde of compact fast substance, which like a promuscis supplieth the place of a mouth and tongue. 1826Kirby & Sp. Entomol. III. xxxiii. 360 Promuscis, the oral instrument of Hemiptera, in which the ordinary Trophi are replaced by a jointed sheath, covered above at the base by the Labrum,..and containing four long capillary lancets, and a short tongue. 1828Stark Elem. Nat. Hist. II. 219 [In the Hymenoptera] All these parts, as well as the labium, are often much elongated, and compose together a species of trunk or proboscis, which Illiger names promuscis, and which Latreille calls a spurious proboscis. 1856–8W. Clark Van der Hoeven's Zool. I. 372 Chrysis L.—Labium not in form of a promuscis. |