Meaning | An order of animals including elephants and mammoths. |
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Synonym | Proboscidea |
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Member of | Eutheria, subclass Eutheria | All mammals except monotremes and marsupials |
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Members | Elephantidae, family Elephantidae | elephants |
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Gomphotheriidae, family Gomphotheriidae | elephants extinct since the Pleistocene |
Mammutidae, family Mammutidae, family Mastodontidae | Extinct family |
proboscidean, proboscidian | massive herbivorous mammals having tusks and a long trunk |
Broader | animal order | The order of animals |
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Spanish | proboscídeos |
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Catalan | Proboscidea, proboscidis |
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