*bosc*

n. [ OF. boscage grove, F. bocage, fr. LL. boscus, buscus, thicket, wood. See 1st Bush. ] 1. A growth of trees or shrubs; underwood; a thicket; thick foliage; a wooded landscape. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (O. Eng. Law) Food or sustenance for cattle, obtained from bushes and trees; also, a tax on wood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. dis- + F. bosquet grove. ] Converting forest land into cleared or arable land; removal of a forest. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. "i`ppos horse + &unr_; to feed.] (Zool.) A genus of dipterous insects including the horsefly or horse tick. -- Hip`po*bos"can a. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A natural family of winged or wingless dipterans: louse flies.
Syn. -- family Hippoboscidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ See Proboscis. ] (Zool.) Having a proboscis; proboscidial. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. See Proboscis. ] (Zool.) An order of large mammals including the elephants and mastodons. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Proboscidian. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Proboscidate. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Pertaining to the Proboscidea. -- n. One of the Proboscidea. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. See Proboscis, and -ferous. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Zool.) An extensive division of pectinibranchiate gastropods, including those that have a long retractile proboscis, with the mouth at the end, as the cones, whelks, tritons, and cowries. See Illust. of Gastropoda, and of Winkle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) A subdivision of the tænioglossate gastropods, including the fig-shells (Pyrula), the helmet shells (Cassis), the tritons, and allied genera. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having the form or uses of a proboscis; as, a proboscidiform mouth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Proboscides [ L. fr. Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; before + &unr_; to feed, graze. ] 1. (Zool.) A hollow organ or tube attached to the head, or connected with the mouth, of various animals, and generally used in taking food or drink; a snout; a trunk. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The proboscis of an elephant is a flexible muscular elongation of the nose. The proboscis of insects is usually a chitinous tube formed by the modified maxillæ, or by the labium. See Illusts. of Hemiptera and Lepidoptera. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) By extension, applied to various tubelike mouth organs of the lower animals that can be everted or protruded. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The proboscis of annelids and of mollusks is usually a portion of the pharynx that can be everted or protruded. That of nemerteans is a special long internal organ, not connected with the mouth, and not used in feeding, but capable of being protruded from a pore in the head. See Illust. in Appendix. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The nose. [ Jocose ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Proboscis monkey. (Zool.) See Kahau. [ 1913 Webster ]