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    PROBOSCIDEAN

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Massive herbivorous mammals having tusks and a long trunkplay

    Synonyms:

    proboscidean; proboscidian

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("proboscidean" 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 "proboscidean"):

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

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

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