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African elephant   /ˈæfrəkən ˈɛləfənt/   Listen
African elephant

noun
1.
An elephant native to Africa having enormous flapping ears and ivory tusks.  Synonym: Loxodonta africana.






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"African elephant" Quotes from Famous Books



... though constant for each; and they constitute one of the most readily available means of separating the fossil forms from one another. Of the seven Miocene Elephants of India, as judged by the characters of the molar, teeth, two are allied to the existing Indian Elephant, one is related to the living African Elephant, and the remaining four are in some respects intermediate between the true Elephants and ...
— The Ancient Life History of the Earth • Henry Alleyne Nicholson



Words linked to "African elephant" :   genus Loxodonta, elephant, Loxodonta



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