elephant
Other forms: elephants
An elephant is an enormous, four-footed animal with big ears and a long trunk. By weight, elephants are the largest land-dwelling animals.
The largest species of elephant, the African savanna elephant, weighs up to 14,000 pounds! African elephants usually have long, curved tusks; some male Asian elephants have tusks, but females do not. You can look at an elephants' ears to help distinguish between African and Asian elephants: African elephants have large, fan-shaped ears, while Asian elephants have smaller, more rounded ears. Elephants use their long trunks for grasping things, vocalizing, and sucking up water. These herbivores travel around foraging in large, tight-knit groups of females and their young. Adult males tend to be more solitary.
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a very large, plant-eating, gray mammal with a long snout, thick legs, and floppy earstypes:rogue elephanta wild and vicious elephant separated from the herdAfrican elephant, Loxodonta africanaan elephant native to Africa having enormous flapping ears and ivory tusksmammothany of numerous extinct elephants widely distributed in the Pleistocene; extremely large with hairy coats and long upcurved tusksgomphothereextinct elephants of Central American and South America; of the Miocene and Pleistocenewhite elephanta rare albino Indian elephant, often considered sacred in east AsiaMammuthus primigenius, northern mammoth, woolly mammothvery hairy mammoth common in colder portions of the northern hemispheretype of:pachydermany of various nonruminant hoofed mammals having very thick skin: elephant; rhinoceros; hippopotamus
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the symbol of the Republican Party; introduced in cartoons by Thomas Nast in 1874
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If you have a yen to learn more about East Asia, review this list of essential vocabulary. You'll explore the climate, land features, political structures, and religious traditions of countries like China, Japan, and North and South Korea. You don't have to be a samurai to conquer this list.
If you have a yen to learn more about East Asia, review this list of essential vocabulary. You'll explore the climate, land features, political structures, and religious traditions of countries like China, Japan, and North and South Korea. You don't have to be a samurai to conquer this list.