Having a proboscis or trunk; proboscidate or proboscidiferous; belonging to the mammalian order Proboscidea.Of or pertaining to a proboscis: as, “the proboscidean sheath of the Nemertines,”Also proboscidial, proboscoid.n. A mammal of the order Proboscidea; an elephantid or dinotheriid.n. Also proboscidian.