PROBOSCIDEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Proboscidea mean? 

• PROBOSCIDEA (noun)
  The noun PROBOSCIDEA has 2 senses:

1. in some classifications included in the genus Martynia and hence the two taxonomic names for some of the unicorn plants

2. an order of animals including elephants and mammoths

  Familiarity information: PROBOSCIDEA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROBOSCIDEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In some classifications included in the genus Martynia and hence the two taxonomic names for some of the unicorn plants

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Proboscidea; Proboscidea

Hypernyms ("Proboscidea" is a kind of...):

plant genus (a genus of plants)

Meronyms (members of "Proboscidea"):

common devil's claw; common unicorn plant; devil's claw; elephant-tusk; Proboscidea louisianica; proboscis flower; ram's horn (annual of southern United States to Mexico having large whitish or yellowish flowers mottled with purple and a long curving beak)

Martynia arenaria; Proboscidea arenaria; sand devil's claw (alternatively placed in genus Martynia)

Martynia fragrans; Proboscidea fragrans; sweet unicorn plant (a herbaceous plant of the genus Proboscidea)

Holonyms ("Proboscidea" is a member of...):

family Pedaliaceae; Pedaliaceae; sesame family (the family of plants of order Polemoniales)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An order of animals including elephants and mammoths

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

order Proboscidea; Proboscidea

Hypernyms ("Proboscidea" is a kind of...):

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "Proboscidea"):

proboscidean; proboscidian (massive herbivorous mammals having tusks and a long trunk)

Elephantidae; family Elephantidae (elephants)

family Mammutidae; family Mastodontidae; Mammutidae (extinct family: mastodons)

family Gomphotheriidae; Gomphotheriidae (elephants extinct since the Pleistocene)

Holonyms ("Proboscidea" is a member of...):

Eutheria; subclass Eutheria (all mammals except monotremes and marsupials)