ELEPHANT
\ˈɛlɪfənt], \ˈɛlɪfənt], \ˈɛ_l_ɪ_f_ə_n_t]\
Definitions of ELEPHANT
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- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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A mammal of the order Proboscidia, of which two living species, Elephas Indicus and E. Africanus, and several fossil species, are known. They have a proboscis or trunk, and two large ivory tusks proceeding from the extremity of the upper jaw, and curving upwards. The molar teeth are large and have transverse folds. Elephants are the largest land animals now existing.
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Ivory; the tusk of the elephant.
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A mammal of the order Proboscidia, of which two living species, Elephas Indicus and E. Africanus, and several fossil species, are known. They have a proboscis or trunk, and two large ivory tusks proceeding from the extremity of the upper jaw, and curving upwards. The molar teeth are large and have transverse folds. Elephants are the largest land animals now existing.
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Ivory; the tusk of the elephant.
By Noah Webster.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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The largest of existing quadrupeds, having a thick skin, a long flexible trunk, and two ivory tusks, and famous for its sagacity and docility, there being two species, the Asiatic or Indian and the African. The order of the White Elephant, a very ancient Danish order of knighthood, restricted to thirty knights. The elephant beetle, a large species of the genus scarabaeus. Elephant paper, a large-sized drawing paper. Elephant's foot, a genus of tropical plants, with a fleshy root used as food by the Hottentots.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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