Definition of Proboscideans

1. proboscidean [n] - See also: proboscidean

Lexicographical Neighbors of Proboscideans

problematizing
probleme
problemed
problemes
problemo
problemos
problems
problemsolver
problemsolvers
probly
probole
proboles
probosci
proboscidate
proboscidean
proboscideans (current term)
proboscides
proboscidian
proboscidians
proboscidiform
probosciform
proboscis
proboscis flower
proboscis monkey
proboscis worm
proboscises
probs
probucol
proc
procacious

Literary usage of Proboscideans

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1906)
"... Invites the attention of Directors of Museums, Universities, and Colleges to the new slightly restored Models of Skulls of the Primitive proboscideans, ..."

2. Organic Evolution by Richard Swann Lull (1917)
"CHAPTER XXXIV - proboscideans Aside from the whales and the great dinosaurs of the Mesozoic, the elephants lead the kingdom of beasts in size and majesty, ..."

3. Organic Evolution by Richard Swann Lull (1917)
"CHAPTER XXXIV proboscideans Aside from the whales and the great dinosaurs of the Mesozoic, the elephants lead the kingdom of beasts in size and majesty, ..."

4. Ivory and the Elephant in Art, in Archaeology, and in Science by George Frederick Kunz (1916)
"proboscideans, approximately to scale, o. ... an upward curve as in the mammoth, and have lost the enamel band characteristic of the older proboscideans. ..."

5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The remainder of the skeleton n imperfectly known, but apparently agrees in its general characters with that of the other proboscideans. ..."

6. Fossil Elephantoids: from the Hominid-Bearing Awash Group, Middle Awash by Jon Kalb (2007)
"Much of the important early work on African proboscideans was conducted during the first half of this century accompanying widespread investigations by ..."

7. Fossil Elephantoids: from the Hominid-Bearing Awash Group, Middle Awash by Jon Kalb (2007)
"Much of the important early work on African proboscideans was conducted during the first half of ..."

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