proboscidea
English Thesaurus
1. an order of animals including elephants and mammoths (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | animal order, |
| definition | : | the order of animals (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | proboscidean, proboscidian, |
| definition | : | massive herbivorous mammals having tusks and a long trunk (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | elephantidae, family elephantidae, |
| definition | : | elephants (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | family mammutidae, family mastodontidae, mammutidae, |
| definition | : | extinct family: mastodons (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | family gomphotheriidae, gomphotheriidae, |
| definition | : | elephants extinct since the Pleistocene (noun.animal) |
| member meronym | : | eutheria, subclass eutheria, |
| definition | : | all mammals except monotremes and marsupials (noun.animal) |
2. in some classifications included in the genus Martynia and hence the two taxonomic names for some of the unicorn plants (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | plant genus, |
| definition | : | a genus of plants (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | common devil's claw, common unicorn plant, devil's claw, elephant-tusk, proboscidea louisianica, proboscis flower, ram's horn, |
| definition | : | annual of southern United States to Mexico having large whitish or yellowish flowers mottled with purple and a long curving beak (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | martynia arenaria, proboscidea arenaria, sand devil's claw, |
| definition | : | alternatively placed in genus Martynia (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | martynia fragrans, proboscidea fragrans, sweet unicorn plant, |
| definition | : | a herbaceous plant of the genus Proboscidea (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | family pedaliaceae, pedaliaceae, sesame family, |
| definition | : | the family of plants of order Polemoniales (noun.plant) |
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