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Webster 1913 Edition
Proboscidea
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Proˊbos-cid′e-a
,Noun.
pl.
[NL. See
Proboscis
.] (Zool.)
An order of large mammals including the elephants and mastodons.
Definition 2024
Proboscidea
Proboscidea
Translingual
Proper noun
Proboscidea
- A taxonomic order within the clade Paenungulata – the elephants.
- (Proboscidea f) A taxonomic genus within the family Martyniaceae – certain New World flowering plants.
Hypernyms
- (order): Mammalia - class; Theria - subclass; Eutheria - infraclass; Epitheria - magnorder; Afrotheria - superorder; Paenungulata - clade
- (genus): angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids, euasterids I - clades; Lamiales - order; Martyniaceae - family
Hyponyms
- (order): Elephantidae (family)
- †Anthracobunidae, †Deinotheriidae, †Gomphotheriidae, †Mammutidae, †Moeritheriidae, †Stegodontidae, (extinct families)
- †Arcanotherium, †Eritreum, †Numidotherium (genera incertae sedis, all extinct)
- (genus): Proboscidea louisianica - type species; Proboscidea althaeifolia, Proboscidea diversifolia, Proboscidea lutea, Proboscidea parviflora, Proboscidea triloba, Proboscidea sabulosa (other species)