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Proboscidea   Listen
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Proboscidea  n. pl.  (Zool.) An order of large mammals including the elephants and mastodons.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Proboscidea" Quotes from Famous Books



... rounded, and of a dark brown or black colour. The mode of subdivision of the polyzoary, and the truncated ends of the branches, and the more numerous cells, suffice to distinguish this species from P. proboscidea. The cells in the figure of P. deflexa appear to be much more slender in proportion, and the branches in that species are not truncated, but ...
— Narrative Of The Voyage Of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By The Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During The Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries And Surveys In New Guinea, The Louisiade • John MacGillivray

... belonging to the odd-toed and even-toed groups; and ancestral forms of cats, civets, dogs, with a number of more generalised forms of carnivora. Besides these there are whales, lemurs, and many strange ancestral forms of proboscidea.[197] ...
— Darwinism (1889) • Alfred Russel Wallace



Words linked to "Proboscidea" :   Proboscidea fragrans, sand devil's claw, family Gomphotheriidae, devil's claw, common devil's claw, subclass Eutheria, sweet unicorn plant, Proboscidea louisianica, Pedaliaceae, animal order, family Mammutidae, Martynia arenaria, Mammutidae, common unicorn plant, family Pedaliaceae, Gomphotheriidae, family Elephantidae, elephant-tusk, plant genus, order Proboscidea



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