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Definition of Proboscidians
1. proboscidian [n] - See also: proboscidian
Lexicographical Neighbors of Proboscidians
Literary usage of Proboscidians
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge edited by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"proboscidians, a division of tho old order of pachyderms, ... Cope in the summer
of 1872 discovered in the eocene of Wyoming several proboscidians, ..."
2. Catalogue of Casts of Fossils: From the Principal Museums of Europe and by Henry Augustus Ward (1866)
"... and the linger proboscidians." To complicate the matter still further, there
has been discovered in the Department of the Haute-Garonne in Southern ..."
3. Catalogue of Casts of Fossils: From the Principal Museums of Europe and by Henry Augustus Ward (1866)
"... and the huger proboscidians." To complicate the matter still further, there
has been discovered in the Department of the ..."
4. Elements of Geology: A Text-book for Colleges and for the General Reader by Joseph Le Conte (1903)
"According to Cope, about fifty species of proboscidians are known. ... Genesis of
proboscidians. — The origin of this remarkable order is obscure. ..."