proboscidean

noun

Any of various mammals of the order Proboscidea, including elephants and their extinct relatives, usually having a trunk and tusks.

adjective

Of or belonging to the order Proboscidea.

Having a proboscis or trunk; proboscidate or proboscidiferous; belonging to the mammalian order Proboscidea.

Of or pertaining to a proboscis: as, “the proboscidean sheath of the Nemertines,”

Also proboscidial, proboscoid.

noun

A mammal of the order Proboscidea; an elephantid or dinotheriid.

noun

Also proboscidian.

adjective

Proboscidian.

noun

Any of various large, herbivorous mammals, of the order Proboscidea, that have a trunk; the elephants

noun

massive herbivorous mammals having tusks and a long trunk