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Look up: Proboscidea

  1. Proboscidea
    The proboscidea are an order of eutheria. They are large animals of the ungulate type. The two upper incisors are modified to form tusks. Canines and Premolars are lacking.
    Found on http://fas.org/news/reference/probert/B7

  2. Proboscidea
    [n] - in some classifications included in the genus Martynia and hence the two taxonomic names for some of the unicorn plants 2. [n] - an order of animals including elephants and mammoths
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. proboscidea
    an order of large gravigrade mammals comprising the elephant Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  4. Proboscidea
    Pro`bos·cid"e·a noun plural [ New Latin See Proboscis .] (Zoology) An order of large mammals including the elephants and mastodons.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/165

  5. proboscidea
    <zoology> An order of large mammal including the elephants and mastodons. ... Origin: NL. See Proboscis. ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
    Found on http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?p

  6. Proboscidea
    order Proboscidea noun an order of animals including elephants and mammoths
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  7. Proboscidea
    genus Proboscidea noun in some classifications included in the genus Martynia and hence the two taxonomic names for some of the unicorn plants
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  8. Proboscidea
    `Proboscidea` is an order containing only one family of living animals, Elephantidae, the elephants, with three living species (African Bush Elephant, 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. Further back in time, in the late Tertiary, there were many more different types, including the bizar...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proboscidea

  9. Proboscidea
    `Proboscidea` is an order containing only one family of living animals, Elephantidae, the elephants, with three living species (African Bush Elephant, 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. Further back in time, in the late Tertiary, there were many more different types, including the bizar...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proboscidea

  10. Proboscidea
    • (n. pl.) An order of large mammals including the elephants and mastodons.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  11. Proboscidea
    Proboscidea An order of terrestrial mammals (Ferungulata) comprising the elephants and their extinct relatives; typically with a large body size and showing development of a trunk from the nose and upper lip; teeth reduced, upper jaw often with tusks. It includes elephants and mammoths (Elephantidae), mastodons (Mammutidae) and the Deinotherioidea, Moerith...
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf

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