Elephant - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- the symbol of the Republican Party; introduced in cartoons by Thomas Nast in 1874
Extra examples
...by any standard, the new shopping mall will be an elephant and one that is certain to alter the retail landscape...
...an elephant's pregnancy can last almost a year...
...try to fancy, if you can, our mother on an elephant when she was touring India...
The children exclaimed with wonder when they saw the elephant.
The elephant has a prehensile trunk.
The elephant is reckoned the slowest breeder of all known animals.
The elephant's conductor is usually mounted upon its neck.
The elephant drove his long tusks between the tiger's shoulders.
They nearly equalled the elephant in size.
The single tusk of the big elephant scaled one hundred and sixty pounds.
A full-grown elephant may weigh 2,000 pounds.
She had never seen a real live elephant before.
The Asian elephant can be tamed and trained.
Shackleton's men overwintered on Elephant Island
The passerby was trampled by an elephant
Word forms
singular: elephant
plural: elephants
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