Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - elephant
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(elephants) An elephant is a very large animal with a long, flexible nose called a trunk, which it uses to pick up things. Elephants live in India and Africa. N-COUNT see also white elephant ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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noun (plural ~s; also ~) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French olifant, elefant, from L. ~us, from Greek ~-, elephas Date: 14th century 1. any of a family (Elephantidae, the ~ family) of thickset usually extremely large nearly hairless herbivorous mammals that have a snout elongated into a muscular trunk and two incisors in the upper jaw developed especially in the male into large ivory tusks and that include two living forms and various extinct relatives: as a. a tall large-eared mammal (Loxodonta africana) of tropical Africa — called also African ~ b. a relatively small-eared mammal (Elephas maximus) of forests of southeastern Asia — called also Asian ~, Indian ~ 2. an animal or fossil related to the ~s 3. one that is uncommonly large or hard to manage ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. (pl. same or elephants) 1 the largest living land animal, of which two species survive, the larger African (Loxodonta africana) and the smaller Indian (Elephas maximus), both with a trunk and long curved ivory tusks. 2 a size of paper (711 x 584 mm). Phrases and idioms elephant grass any of various tall African grasses, esp. Pennisetum purpureum. elephant seal = sea elephant. elephant shrew any small insect-eating mammal of the family Macroscelididae, native to Africa, having a long snout and long hind limbs. Derivatives elephantoid adj. Etymology: ME olifaunt etc. f. OF oli-, elefant ult. f. L elephantus, elephans f. Gk elephas -antos ivory, elephant ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1) слон; pl слоны (Elephantidae) 2) энт. бражник; pl бражники (Sphingidae) 3) энт. бражник винный (Pergesa elpenor) – African elephant – Asiatic elephant – California sea elephant – Indian elephant – northern elephant – sea elephant – slotted elephant – small elephant – southern sea elephant ...Англо-русский Русско-английский биологический словарь
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(the Republican Elephant) полит. (республиканский) "Слон" Эмблема Республиканской партии Republican Party. Образ "республиканского Слона" впервые использован Т. Настом Nast, Thomas в политической карикатуре, опубликованной в журнале "Харперс уикли" Harper's Weekly 7 ноября 1874. Символика сохранилась до наших дней. Тж. Republican Elephant Ср. Donkey Democratic ...Англо-русский лингвострановедческий словарь
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bull слон ELEPHANT calf слоненок ELEPHANT cow слониха ELEPHANT trumpet рев слона ELEPHANT noun 1) слон 2) (Elephant) amer. слон (эмблема республиканской партии) 3) формат бумаги 4) attr. - elephant bull - elephant calf - elephant cow - elephant trumpet - white elephant to see the elephant, to get a look at the elephant amer. узнать жизнь, увидеть свет; увидеть жизнь большого города ...Англо-русский словарь
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- 13c., olyfaunt, from O.Fr. oliphant, from L. elephantus, from Gk. elephas (gen. elephantos) "elephant, ivory," probably from a non-I.E. language, likely Phoenician. Re-spelled after 1550 on L. model. White elephant (1851) supposedly arose from the practice of the King of Siam of presenting one of the sacred albino elephants to a courtier who had fallen from favor; the gift was a great honor, but the cost of proper upkeep of one was ruinous. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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