Crossword-Solution: PROBOSCIDEAN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Proboscidean | a. | Proboscidian. |
We have 1 clue for the answer “PROBOSCIDEAN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| any of an order of large mammals comprising the elephants and extinct related forms | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
To cause to flow in a stream, as a liquid or anything
flowing like a liquid, either out of a vessel or into it; as, to pour
water from a pail; to pour wine into a decanter; to pour oil upon the
waters; to pour out sand or dust.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with PROBOSCIDEAN (5)
Falconer does not allow for the Proboscidean group being a failing one, and therefore not likely to be giving off new races.
That big tertiary proboscidean did not live quite long enough, it is true, to be hunted by the cavemen of the Pleistocene age, but he survived at any rate as long as the Pliocene--our day before yesterday--and he often fell very likely before the fire-split flint weapons of the Abbé Bourgeois' Miocene men.
This, the first of many utterances on the part of the Silver Elephant, ranging from the idiotically inappropriate to the appositely malign, ran as follows: "_Be very kind to Pussy-cat_ _And handle her with care:_ _You would not pull her by the tail_ _If her claws grew out of there!_" "Well, if that’s the best this beast can do—" began Margot, sternly surveying the proboscidean.
Ancestral forms, doubtfully Proboscidean (_Dinocerata_), existed in North America in the Eocene period, but these became extinct without leaving any direct descendants, unless the _Brontotheridæ_ and rhinoceroses may be so considered.
The proboscidean seal, however, seems to be the only pinniped which visits the Antarctic continent; but that is a mere inference of mine, because so little is known of those ice-bound coasts, and Wilkes, who gives the only record made of the subject, saw no other animal there save that one.