Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various mammals of the order Proboscidea, including elephants and their extinct relatives, usually having a trunk and tusks.
- adjective Of or belonging to the order Proboscidea.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a proboscis or trunk; proboscidate or proboscidiferous; belonging to the mammalian order Proboscidea.
- Of or pertaining to a proboscis: as, “the proboscidean sheath of the Nemertines,”
- Also proboscidial, proboscoid.
- noun A mammal of the order Proboscidea; an elephantid or dinotheriid.
- noun Also
proboscidian .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Proboscidian.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of various large,
herbivorous mammals , of the orderProboscidea , that have atrunk ; theelephants
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun massive herbivorous mammals having tusks and a long trunk
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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That said, here is another controversial image of a possible proboscidean from Renegade Canyon in the Coso Range, Inyo County, California.
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The image above from Utah may look familiar to you as I blogged about it here a couple of months ago as one of the very few possible images of Pleistocene megafauna a proboscidean from North American rock art.
Archive 2005-10-01 2005
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That said, here is another controversial image of a possible proboscidean from Renegade Canyon in the Coso Range, Inyo County, California.
Archive 2005-10-01 2005
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The image above from Utah may look familiar to you as I blogged about it here a couple of months ago as one of the very few possible images of Pleistocene megafauna a proboscidean from North American rock art.
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His attachment to the mastodon puzzled me, and I wondered if he was taking on the letter “m” as well, until I noticed that he constantly referred to it as the “proboscidean mammal.”
Eighteen JAN BURKE 2002
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His attachment to the mastodon puzzled me, and I wondered if he was taking on the letter “m” as well, until I noticed that he constantly referred to it as the “proboscidean mammal.”
Eighteen JAN BURKE 2002
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But how could anyone get mad at that face, with its mournful, innocent eyes and its proboscidean mouth where its hair ought to be, tottering after him with the stride of a quadrupedal duck?
The End of the Matter Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977
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But how could anyone get mad at that face, with its mournful, innocent eyes and its proboscidean mouth where its hair ought to be, tottering after him with the stride of a quadrupedal duck?
The End Of The Matter Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977
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But how could anyone get mad at that face, with its mournful, innocent eyes and its proboscidean mouth where its hair ought to be, tottering after him with the stride of a quadrupedal duck?
The End of the Matter Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977
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But how could anyone get mad at that face, with its mournful, innocent eyes and its proboscidean mouth where its hair ought to be, tottering after him with the stride of a quadrupedal duck?
The End of the Matter Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977
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