Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - elephant
Elephant
elephant
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
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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 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 tall large-eared mammal (Loxodonta africana) of tropical Africa, a relatively small-eared mammal (Elephas maximus) of forests of southeastern Asia, an animal or fossil related to the ~s, one that is uncommonly large or hard to manage ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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