ORDER PROBOSCIDEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does order Proboscidea mean? 

• ORDER PROBOSCIDEA (noun)
  The noun ORDER PROBOSCIDEA has 1 sense:

1. an order of animals including elephants and mammoths

  Familiarity information: ORDER PROBOSCIDEA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ORDER PROBOSCIDEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An order of animals including elephants and mammoths

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

order Proboscidea; Proboscidea

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

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "order 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 ("order Proboscidea" is a member of...):

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