| NOUN | animal | proboscidean, proboscidian | massive herbivorous mammals having tusks and a long trunk |
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| Meaning | massive herbivorous mammals having tusks and a long trunk. | |
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| Synonym | proboscidian | |
| Member of | Proboscidea, order Proboscidea | An order of animals including elephants and mammoths |
| Narrower | elephant | Five-toed pachyderm |
| mastodon, mastodont | Extinct elephant-like mammal that flourished worldwide / worldwide from Miocene through Pleistocene times | |
| Broader | placental, placental mammal, eutherian, eutherian mammal | mammals having a placenta |
| Spanish | proboscideo, proboscídeo, proboscidian | |
| Catalan | proboscidi | |
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