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elephant
five-toed pachyderm
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mastodon, mastodont
extinct elephant-like mammal that flourished worldwide from Miocene through Pleistocene times; differ from mammoths in the form of the molar teeth
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rogue elephant
a wild and vicious elephant separated from the herd
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Elephas maximus, Indian elephant
Asian elephant having smaller ears and tusks primarily in the male
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African elephant, Loxodonta africana
an elephant native to Africa having enormous flapping ears and ivory tusks
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mammoth
any of numerous extinct elephants widely distributed in the Pleistocene; extremely large with hairy coats and long upcurved tusks
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American mastodon, American mastodont, Mammut americanum
mastodon of North America; in some classifications considered a mammoth rather than a mastodon
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gomphothere
extinct elephants of Central American and South America; of the Miocene and Pleistocene
