1. relating to or characteristic of elephants and their extinct relatives
Usage: zoological

1. a mammal of the order Proboscidea, including elephants and their extinct relatives such as mammoths and mastodons
Usage: zoological

Examples

• The museum’s proboscidean exhibit featured fossils of ancient elephants.
• Scientists study proboscidean evolution to understand how elephants developed their trunks.
• Mammoths were proboscideans that lived during the Ice Age.
• The proboscidean skull showed adaptations for supporting a heavy trunk.
• Modern elephants are the only surviving proboscideans.
• Proboscidean fossils have been found on every continent except Antarctica and Australia.