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9 letters · 15 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun the human nose (especially when it is large)
noun a long flexible snout as of an elephant
originFrom Latin proboscis, from Ancient Greek προβοσκίς (proboskís, “elephant's trunk”) literally "means for taking food," from προ- (pro-, “before”) + βόσκω (bóskō, “to nourish, feed”), from the Proto-Indo-European root *gʷeh₃- from which also comes βοτάνη (botánē, “grass, fodder”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- scroops 11
- crisps 10
- piscos 10
- psoric 10
- scoops 10
- scrips 10
- scrobs 10
- scroop 10
- sorbic 10
- boric 9
- coops 9
- corps 9