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Chryselephantine
Chryselephantine Chrys`el*e*phan"tine, a. [Gr. chryso`s gold +
? made of ivory, fr. ? ivory, elephant.]
Composed of, or adorned with, gold and ivory.
Note: The chryselephantine statues of the Greeks were built
up with inferior materials, veneered, as it were, with
ivory for the flesh, and gold decorated with color for
the hair and garments.
Elephantiac
Elephantiac El`e*phan"ti*ac, a. (Med.)
Affected with elephantiasis; characteristic of elephantiasis.
Elephantoid
Elephantoid El"e*phan*toid` (?; 277), Elephantoidal
El`e*phan*toid"al, a. [Elephant + -oid.] (Zo["o]l.)
Resembling an elephant in form or appearance.
Elephantoidal
Elephantoid El"e*phan*toid` (?; 277), Elephantoidal
El`e*phan*toid"al, a. [Elephant + -oid.] (Zo["o]l.)
Resembling an elephant in form or appearance.
Pad elephant
Pad elephant Pad elephant
An elephant that is furnished with a pad for carrying burdens
instead of with a howdah for carrying passengers.
Sea elephantSea elephant Sea" el"e*phant (Zo["o]l.)
A very large seal (Macrorhinus proboscideus) of the
Antarctic seas, much hunted for its oil. It sometimes attains
a length of thirty feet, and is remarkable for the
prolongation of the nose of the adult male into an erectile
elastic proboscis, about a foot in length. Another species of
smaller size (M. angustirostris) occurs on the coast of
Lower California, but is now nearly extinct. sea elephantSeal Seal (s[=e]l), n. [OE. sele, AS. seolh; akin to OHG.
selah, Dan. s[ae]l, Sw. sj["a]l, Icel. selr.] (Zo["o]l.)
Any aquatic carnivorous mammal of the families Phocid[ae]
and Otariid[ae].
Note: Seals inhabit seacoasts, and are found principally in
the higher latitudes of both hemispheres. There are
numerous species, bearing such popular names as sea
lion, sea leopard, sea bear, or ursine seal,
fur seal, and sea elephant. The bearded seal
(Erignathus barbatus), the hooded seal (Cystophora
crustata), and the ringed seal (Phoca f[oe]tida),
are northern species. See also Eared seal, Harp
seal, and Fur seal, under Eared, Harp, Monk,
and Fur. Seals are much hunted for their skins and
fur, and also for their oil, which in some species is
very abundant.
Harbor seal (Zo["o]l.), the common seal (Phoca vitulina).
It inhabits both the North Atlantic and the North Pacific
Ocean, and often ascends rivers; -- called also marbled
seal, native seal, river seal, bay seal, land
seal, sea calf, sea cat, sea dog, dotard,
ranger, selchie, tangfish. Water elephant
Water elephant Wa"ter el"e*phant (Zo["o]l.)
The hippopotamus. [R.]
White elephant
White elephant White elephant
Something requiring much care and expense and yielding little
profit; any burdensome possession. [Slang]
Meaning of ELEPHANT from wikipedia
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Elephants are the
largest living land animals.
Three living species are
currently recognised: the
African bush
elephant (Loxodonta africana), the African...
- A
white elephant gift exchange,
Yankee swap or
Dirty Santa is a
party game
where amusing and
impractical gifts are
exchanged during Christmas festivities...
- A war
elephant is an
elephant that is
trained and
guided by
humans for
combat purposes. Historically, the war
elephant's main use was to
charge the enemy...
- A
white elephant is a
possession that its
owner cannot dispose of
without extreme difficulty, and
whose cost,
particularly that of maintenance, is out...
- The
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), also
known as the
Asiatic elephant, is a
species of
elephant distributed throughout the
Indian subcontinent and Southeast...
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African elephants are
members of the
genus Loxodonta comprising two
living elephant species, the
African bush
elephant (L. africana) and the
smaller African...
- Look up
elephant ear in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Elephant ear may
refer to: The ear of an
elephant Several genera in the
family Araceae (Arums)...
- The
Elephants (Catalan: Els Elefants) is a 1948
painting by the
Catalan surrealist artist Salvador Dalí. The
elephant is a
recurring theme in the works...
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Elephant seals or sea
elephants are very large,
oceangoing earless seals in the
genus Mirounga. Both species, the
northern elephant seal (M. angustirostris)...
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Elephant shrews, also
called jumping shrews or sengis, are
small insectivorous mammals native to Africa,
belonging to the
family Macroscelididae, in the...
