| 单词 | proboscidean |
| 释义 | proboscidean (once / 695254 pages) n WORD FAMILY proboscidean: proboscideans USAGE EXAMPLESThe mammoth steppe of Siberia might be brought back one day, along with the great herds of woolly proboscideans. Scientific American(Jun 10, 2014) Hyoid apparatus: a little known complex of bones and its “contribution” to proboscidean evolution. Scientific American(Nov 20, 2012) Falconer does not allow for the Proboscidean group being a failing one, and therefore not likely to be giving off new races. Darwin, Francis, Sir, Life and Letters of Charles Darwin...(2010) n massive herbivorous mammals having tusks and a long trunk Syn|Hypo|Hyper proboscidian elephant five-toed pachyderm mastodon, mastodontextinct elephant-like mammal that flourished worldwide from Miocene through Pleistocene times; differ from mammoths in the form of the molar teeth rogue elephanta wild and vicious elephant separated from the herd Elephas maximus, Indian elephantAsian elephant having smaller ears and tusks primarily in the male African elephant, Loxodonta africanaan elephant native to Africa having enormous flapping ears and ivory tusks mammothany of numerous extinct elephants widely distributed in the Pleistocene; extremely large with hairy coats and long upcurved tusks American mastodon, American mastodont, Mammut americanummastodon of North America; in some classifications considered a mammoth rather than a mastodon gomphothereextinct elephants of Central American and South America; of the Miocene and Pleistocene eutherian, eutherian mammal, placental, placental mammal mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials |
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