Entry: proboscoid (adj.)
In context: "Postal Weight's nose is a massive proboscoid bandaged thing."
Definition: Shaped like or suggestive of a proboscis or nose; having a proboscis.
Other: A little odd that one of the usages would come from the Financial Times, but here you go:
1995 Financial Times (Nexis) 11 Sept. 17 Here he again resembles a human insect—sallow, hunched, proboscoid—as he plays an ice-cream parlour manager with a taste for young girls.
SNOOT score: 1
Page: 704
Source: Oxford English Dictionary
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