What's the difference between proboscidean and proboscidian?
Proboscidean
Definition:
(a.) Proboscidian.
Example Sentences:
(1) Morphology indicated the close association of sirenians with proboscideans; proteins suggested a pairing of sirenians with hyracoids.
(2) The shared taxeopody of hyracoids and proboscideans, along with other osteological characters and similarities in hemoglobin, eye lens proteins, and other molecules, all suggest that Hyracoidea belongs within Paenungulata.
(3) Amino acid-sequence and morphological data agreed on the placement of edentates as an early eutherian offshoot and on the grouping of hyracoids, proboscideans, and sirenians.
Proboscidian
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to the Proboscidea.
(n.) One of the Proboscidea.
Example Sentences:
(1) Trichostrongyles occur in the gut and less commonly in the stomach and the lungs of all classes of terrestrial vertebrates except the Perissodactyls and the Proboscidian.