trunk
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- noun
- /trʌŋk/
:
trompa
- Now, for the other tests? Wall reached out with his trunk and began to tap at the giant keyboard.
- an elephant's trunk
- tusks and trunks
They're like, we're sorry, give him one of these elephant trunk.
- They're like, we're sorry, give him one of these elephant trunk.
- And when the baby plops to the ground, they all stroke her with their trunks.
- In fact, the size of a donkey with a with a, a head with a small trunk on it and and really odd feet.
Examples
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When you drink water through your trunk, does it taste like boogers?
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And sat on the elephant's trunk.
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Like an elephant's trunk, I'll bet.
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Raising its trunk, it worked its prehensile lips an inch from her face.
Fiction book (1990) -
Since elephants carry water in their trunks, Eddie didn't really think this was funny.
Fiction book (1997) -
While submerged, the pair of matriarchs look contentedly on their herds before turning their trunks to the horizon once more.
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The baby elephant used its trunk to lift food off the ground.
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When the elephant swam, it held its trunk above the water to breathe.
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The zookeeper observed the elephant as it stretched its trunk to reach a branch.
Synonyms
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1.0
The part of the face used for breathing and smelling
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9.6
A long flexible nose-like part that animals use to reach and eat food
Compounds
- Specialized
Large blood vessel in the abdomen that comes from the main artery and supplies the stomach, liver, and spleen
- Specialized
A bundle of heart fibers that carries the signal from the atrioventricular node to the ventricles to make them contract
- Specialized
A large vessel that carries blood from the right heart to the lungs and splits into two arteries
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Etymology
Trunk for an elephant's long nose uses the same root truncus meaning 'main part', and people compared the elephant's thick, useful nose to a tree's trunk, so the animal's trunk is its main flexible 'arm' for holding and smelling things.