PROBOSCIDIAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does proboscidian mean? 

• PROBOSCIDIAN (noun)
  The noun PROBOSCIDIAN has 1 sense:

1. massive herbivorous mammals having tusks and a long trunk

  Familiarity information: PROBOSCIDIAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROBOSCIDIAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Massive herbivorous mammals having tusks and a long trunk

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

proboscidean; proboscidian

Hypernyms ("proboscidian" 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 "proboscidian"):

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 ("proboscidian" is a member of...):

order Proboscidea; Proboscidea (an order of animals including elephants and mammoths)