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Elephantine
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- 1 Of, relating to, resembling, or characteristic of elephants.
"The scene around them was currently plunged into gloom. Dark mists swirled round them and elephantine shapes lurked indistinctly in the shadows."
- 2 Of, from, or pertaining to Elephantine or the Elephantine people. not-comparable
- 3 Very large.
"He comes into Brewer from the south, seeing it in the smoky shadow before dawn as a gradual multiplication of houses among the trees beside the road and then as a treeless waste of industry, shoe factories and bottling plants and company parking lots and knitting mills converted to electronics parts and elephantine gas tanks lifting above trash-filled swampland yet lower than the blue edge of the mountain from whose crest Brewer was a warm carpet woven around a single shade of brick."
- 1 of great mass; huge and bulky wordnet
- 1 An island in the river Nile, and the ancient city that occupied it.
- 1 Any member of the subfamily Elephantinae of elephants and their extinct close relatives.
Etymology
From Latin elephantīn(us). By surface analysis, elephant + -ine.
From Latin elephantīn(us). By surface analysis, elephant + -ine.
From Ancient Greek Ἐλεφαντίνη (Elephantínē).
From Ancient Greek Ἐλεφαντίνη (Elephantínē).
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