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Definition of Order Proboscidea
1. Noun. An order of animals including elephants and mammoths.
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Eutheria, Subclass Eutheria
Member holonyms: Proboscidean, Proboscidian, Elephantidae, Family Elephantidae, Family Mammutidae, Family Mastodontidae, Mammutidae, Family Gomphotheriidae, Gomphotheriidae
Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Proboscidea
Literary usage of Order Proboscidea
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale (1884)
"order Proboscidea. IT seems a strange jump from the order which contains the smallest
... The order Proboscidea, or animals whose noses are prolonged into a ..."
2. Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Histological Series Contained by John Quekett (1855)
"Order PROBOSCIDEA. Bd 135. A transverse section of the tibia of an Elephant,
Elephas indicus, the breadth of which is half an inch ; when viewed with the ..."
3. The Geography of Mammals by William Lutley Sclater, Philip Lutley Sclater (1899)
"SUMMARY AND DEDUCTIONS AS REGARDS THE order Proboscidea 1. The order Proboscidea
contains only the genus Elephas (forming a family ..."
4. The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and (1876)
"One other form of animal, which can be referred to the order Proboscidea, ...
Here our knowledge of the history of the order Proboscidea, as derived from ..."
5. Proceedings by Royal Institution of Great Britain (1879)
"One other form of animal, which can be referred to the order Proboscidea, ...
Here our knowledge of the history of the order Proboscidea, as derived from ..."
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