Proboscidea

Translingual

Mammut americanum skeletons

Proboscidea parviflora

Etymology

Ancient Greek πρό (pró, “in front”) + βόσκω (bóskō, “to feed”). See proboscis.

Proper noun

Proboscidea

1. A taxonomic order within the class Mammalia – elephants.
2. (Proboscidea f) A taxonomic genus within the family Martyniaceae – certain New World flowering plants.

Hypernyms

• (order): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Tetrapoda – superclass; Mammalia – class; Theria – subclass; Eutheria/Placentalia – infraclass; Atlantogenata – magnorder; Afrotheria – superorder; Paenungulata – grandorder; Tethytheria – mirorder
• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids, euasterids I – clades; Lamiales – order; Martyniaceae – family

Hyponyms

• (order): Elephantidae – sole extant family
• (genus): Proboscidea louisianica (ram's horn) – type species; Proboscidea althaeifolia (devil's horn, devil's claw, desert unicorn plant), Proboscidea diversifolia, Proboscidea parviflora (doubleclaw, red devil's claw), Proboscidea triloba, Proboscidea sabulosa (dune unicorn plant), Proboscidea spicata (New Mexico unicorn plant) – other species

Derived terms

• Proboscidea lutea (yellow unicorn plant, syn. of Ibicella lutea)

References

• (order of mammals):
  • Proboscidea on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Proboscidea on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
  • Category:Proboscidea on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
  • Proboscidea at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
  • Proboscidea in Mammal Species of the World^[1] at Bucknell.
  • Proboscidea at National Center for Biotechnology Information
  • “Proboscidea”, in Paleobiology Database, 2026
  • Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, →DOI
• (genus of plants):
  • Proboscidea (plant) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Proboscidea (Martyniaceae) on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
  • Proboscidea (Martyniaceae) on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
  • Proboscidea at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
  • Proboscidea at National Center for Biotechnology Information
  • Proboscidea at USDA Plants database