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Definition of proboscidean in English: proboscidean(also proboscidian) noun ˌprɒbəˈsɪdɪənˌproʊbəˈsɪdiən Zoology A mammal of the order Proboscidea, which comprises the elephants and their extinct relatives. Example sentencesExamples - The earliest proboscideans lacked any trunk or tusks.
- There were once more than 300 species within the family, known as proboscideans, but today only Asian elephants and African elephants still exist.
- The team found several species of archaic proboscideans called Palaeomastodons previously known from 32-million-year-old coastal sediments in Fayum, Egypt.
- In addition, because they are believed to be the sister group to proboscideans, their aquatic preferences raise interesting evolutionary questions.
- The nature and behavior of these proboscideans have also haunted South African naturalist Lyall Watson, who evokes their world in Elephantoms: Tracking the Elephant (W. W. Norton).
adjective ˌprɒbəˈsɪdɪənˌproʊbəˈsɪdiən Zoology Relating to or denoting proboscideans. Example sentencesExamples - If people hunted these animals to extinction, the authors argue, the kill sites should appear along the border between proboscidean and human ranges.
- Hypsodonty has been shown to be a spurious correlate to obligate grazing in previous studies on certain equid and proboscidean taxa as well.
- If climate was the culprit, then people and proboscideans should have shared some of the same territory, at least until climate change shrunk proboscidean habitat.
- As humans moved north into Eurasia from Africa and, later, south from Alaska across the Americas, proboscidean range contracted correspondingly.
- Climate change, then, cannot account for proboscidean extinction "unless one were to invoke serial climatic change that perfectly tracks human global colonization."
Definition of proboscidean in US English: proboscidean(also proboscidian) nounˌproʊbəˈsɪdiənˌprōbəˈsidēən Zoology A mammal of the order Proboscidea, which comprises the elephants and their extinct relatives. Example sentencesExamples - The earliest proboscideans lacked any trunk or tusks.
- The team found several species of archaic proboscideans called Palaeomastodons previously known from 32-million-year-old coastal sediments in Fayum, Egypt.
- In addition, because they are believed to be the sister group to proboscideans, their aquatic preferences raise interesting evolutionary questions.
- There were once more than 300 species within the family, known as proboscideans, but today only Asian elephants and African elephants still exist.
- The nature and behavior of these proboscideans have also haunted South African naturalist Lyall Watson, who evokes their world in Elephantoms: Tracking the Elephant (W. W. Norton).
adjectiveˌproʊbəˈsɪdiənˌprōbəˈsidēən Zoology Relating to or denoting proboscideans. Example sentencesExamples - As humans moved north into Eurasia from Africa and, later, south from Alaska across the Americas, proboscidean range contracted correspondingly.
- Climate change, then, cannot account for proboscidean extinction "unless one were to invoke serial climatic change that perfectly tracks human global colonization."
- Hypsodonty has been shown to be a spurious correlate to obligate grazing in previous studies on certain equid and proboscidean taxa as well.
- If people hunted these animals to extinction, the authors argue, the kill sites should appear along the border between proboscidean and human ranges.
- If climate was the culprit, then people and proboscideans should have shared some of the same territory, at least until climate change shrunk proboscidean habitat.
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