Definition of proboscidea Proboscidea

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We found 5 definitions of proboscidea from 4 different sources.

What does proboscidea mean?

Noun
proboscidea - an order of animals including elephants and mammoths
		order Proboscidea
		animal order the order of animals
		eutheria, subclass eutheria all mammals except monotremes and marsupials
		proboscidean, proboscidian massive herbivorous mammals having tusks and a long trunk
		elephantidae, family elephantidae elephants
		family mammutidae, family mastodontidae, mammutidae extinct family: mastodons
proboscidea - in some classifications included in the genus Martynia and hence the two taxonomic names for some of the unicorn plants
		genus Proboscidea
		plant genus a genus of plants
		family pedaliaceae, pedaliaceae, sesame family the family of plants of order Polemoniales
		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

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proboscidea (n. pl.)
An order of large mammals including the elephants and mastodons.

Proboscidea is an order containing only one familiy of living animals, Elephantidae, the elephants, with three living species (African Forest Elephant, and Asian Elephant).

During the period of the last ice age there were more, now extinct species, including a number of species of the elephant-like mammoths and mastodons.

Origins.

The oldest dates from the early Tertiary period, over 50 million years ago. The evolution of the elephant-like animals mainly concerned the proportions of the cranium and jaw and the shape of the tusks and molar teeth.