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PROBOSCIDEAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does proboscidean mean?
• PROBOSCIDEAN (noun)
The noun PROBOSCIDEAN has 1 sense:
1. massive herbivorous mammals having tusks and a long trunk
Familiarity information: PROBOSCIDEAN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Massive herbivorous mammals having tusks and a long trunk
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
proboscidean; proboscidian
Hypernyms ("proboscidean" is a kind of...):
eutherian; eutherian mammal; placental; placental mammal (mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "proboscidean"):
elephant (five-toed pachyderm)
mastodon; mastodont (extinct elephant-like mammal that flourished worldwide from Miocene through Pleistocene times; differ from mammoths in the form of the molar teeth)
Holonyms ("proboscidean" is a member of...):
order Proboscidea; Proboscidea (an order of animals including elephants and mammoths)
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