单词 | proboscidian |
释义 | proboscidian (once / 537242 pages) n WORD FAMILY proboscidian: proboscidians USAGE EXAMPLESThis time period 7 million years ago was "chock-full of different kinds of proboscidians." Science Magazine(Feb 22, 2012) The hair verged on a fiery red, the nose was a real sky-scraper and the upper lip was almost proboscidian in its length. Ford, Paul Leicester, The Honorable Peter Stirling and Wh...(2010) The proboscidians culminated in the Pliocene, when some of the giant elephants reached a height of fourteen feet. Norton, William Harmon, The Elements of Geology(2010) n massive herbivorous mammals having tusks and a long trunk Syn|Hypo|Hyper proboscidean 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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