noun elephant A heavy plant-eating mammal with a prehensile trunk, long curved ivory tusks, and large ears, native to Africa and southern Asia. It is the largest living land animal. 1
noun Technical meaning of elephant Large, grey, four-legged mammal. 1
noun elephant A mammal of the order Proboscidea, having a trunk, and two large ivory tusks jutting from the upper jaw. 0
noun elephant (figuratively) Anything huge and ponderous. 0
noun elephant (paper, printing) A printing-paper size measuring 30 inches x 22 inches. 0
noun elephant (Britain, childish) used when counting to add length, so that each count takes about one second. 0
noun elephant (Obsolete (No longer in use)) ivory. 0
countable noun elephant 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. 0
noun elephant either of the two proboscidean mammals of the family Elephantidae. The African elephant (Loxodonta africana) is the larger species, with large flapping ears and a less humped back than the Indian elephant (Elephas maximus), of S and SE Asia 0
noun elephant a size of writing paper, 23 by 28 inches 0
noun elephant any of an order (Proboscidea) of huge, thick-skinned, almost hairless mammals, the largest of extant four-footed animals, with a long, flexible snout (called a trunk) and, usually, two ivory tusks growing out of the upper jaw: the two existing species are the Asiatic (or Indian) elephant (Elephas maximus), which is commonly domesticated and is an endangered species, and the African elephant (Loxodonta africana), which has a flatter head and larger ears 0
