proboscidea in English
noun
1
an order of large mammals that comprises the elephants and their extinct relatives. They are distinguished by the possession of a trunk and tusks.
The bones belong to an animal in the order Proboscidea - large mammals with trunks - the same order that includes living elephants.
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1. 4 Because they possessed this extraordinary proboscis, science christened them the Proboscidea.