Elephant
31ÉLÉPHANT — n. m. Grand quadrupède mammifère, de l’ordre des Pachydermes, qui a une trompe et dont les défenses fournissent l’ivoire. Chasser l’éléphant. Le cornac de l’éléphant. Voyager à dos d’éléphant. Fig. et fam., Faire d’une mouche un éléphant. Voyez… …
32elephant — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ African ▪ Asian, Indian ▪ bull, cow ▪ female, male ▪ …
33elephant — [13] Elephants were named from their tusks. Greek eléphās (probably a borrowing from a non Indo European language) meant originally ‘ivory’ (hence chryselephantine ‘of gold and ivory’ [19]). Only later did it come to denote the animal itself, and …
34elephant — noun (plural same or elephants) a very large plant eating mammal with a prehensile trunk, long curved ivory tusks, and large ears. [Loxodonta africana (African elephant, Africa) and Elephas maximus (Indian elephant, southern Asia).] Derivatives… …
35elephant — [13] Elephants were named from their tusks. Greek eléphās (probably a borrowing from a non Indo European language) meant originally ‘ivory’ (hence chryselephantine ‘of gold and ivory’ [19]). Only later did it come to denote the animal itself, and …
36elephant — noun /ˈelɪfənt/ a) A mammal of the order Proboscidea, having a trunk, and two large ivory tusks jutting from the upper jaw. Lets play hide and seek. Ill count. One elephant, two elephant, three elephant... b) Anything huge and ponderous …
37elephant */ — UK [ˈelɪfənt] / US [ˈeləfənt] noun [countable] Word forms elephant : singular elephant plural elephants a very large wild animal that lives in Africa and Asia. It has thick grey skin and a very long nose called a trunk a herd (= large group) of… …
38elephant — el•e•phant [[t]ˈɛl ə fənt[/t]] n. pl. phants, (esp. collectively) phant for1. 1) zool. mam either of two very large five toed mammals of the family Elephantidae, characterized by a long prehensile trunk and large tusks esp. in the males,… …
39elephant — el|e|phant [ˈelıfənt] n ↑tusk [Date: 1200 1300; : Old French; Origin: oliphant, from Greek elephas elephant, ivory ] a very large grey animal with four legs, two ↑tusks (=long curved teeth) and a ↑trunk (=long nose) that it can use to pick things …
40elephant — [[t]e̱lɪfənt[/t]] elephants N COUNT 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. → See also white elephant …
