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Definition of Family Elephantidae
1. Noun. Elephants.
Generic synonyms: Mammal Family
Group relationships: Order Proboscidea, Proboscidea
Member holonyms: Elephant, Elephas, Genus Elephas, Genus Loxodonta, Loxodonta, Genus Mammuthus, Mammuthus, Archidiskidon, Genus Archidiskidon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Elephantidae
Literary usage of Family Elephantidae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Geographical Distribution of Animals: With a Study of the Relations of by Alfred Russel Wallace (1876)
"... from which it will be seen that, although the family Elephantidae undoubtedly
originated in the Eastern Hemisphere, it is not improbable that the first ..."
2. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1902)
"The last genus of the family Elephantidae is Mastodon, so called from the structure
of the molar teeth. These are provided with but few transverse ridges, ..."
3. The Life of Animals: The Mammals by Ernest Ingersoll (1907)
"The anatomical peculiarities of the elephants (family Elephantidae) are largely
adaptations to their colossal size, never greater than at present. ..."
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