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Pertaining to the elephant, or resembling an elephant (commonly, in size); hence, huge; immense; heavy; as, of elephantine proportions; an elephantine step or tread. Elephantine epoch (Geol.), the epoch distinguished by the existence of large pachyderms. Mantell. -- Elephantine tortoise (Zoöl.), a huge land tortoise;…

Resembling an elephant in form or appearance.

Resembling a beetle's wing case.

, raised to prevent water from overflowing a level tract of country, to retain water in a reservoir, or to carry a roadway, etc.

Belonging to, or resembling, the Embiotocidæ. -- n.

a cloth for ladies' dresses, either wholly of wool, or with cotton warp and wool weft. It resembles merino, but is not twilled.

Any liquid preparation of a color and consistency resembling milk; as: (a) In pharmacy, an extract of seeds, or a mixture of oil and water united by a mucilaginous substance. (b) In photography, a liquid preparation of collodion holding salt of silver, used in the photographic process.

That which is enameled; also, any smooth, glossy surface, resembling enamel, especially if variegated.

Consisting of enamel; resembling enamel; smooth; glossy. [R.] Craig.

Resembling the material of the brain; cerebriform. Encephaloid cancer (Med.), a very malignant form of cancer of brainlike consistency. See under Cancer.

A fossil crinoid, esp. one belonging to, or resembling, the genus Encrinus. Sometimes used in a general sense for any crinoid.

A subordinary, resembling the pale, but of one fourth its width (according to some writers, one eighth).

Relating to or resembling an enigma; not easily explained or accounted for; darkly expressed; obscure; puzzling; as, an enigmatical answer.

Resembling, or covered with, a sleeve; -- said of the chief when lines are drawn from the middle point of the upper edge upper edge to the sides.

Resembling an insect. -- n.

Fitted to excite envy; capable of awakening an ardent desire to posses or to resemble. One of most enviable of human beings. Macaulay. -- En"vi*a*ble*ness, n. -- En"vi*a*bly, adv.

s of Australia, New Zealand, etc., having pretty white, red, or purple blossoms, and much resembling heaths.

Pertaining to, or resembling, an epicondyle.

Pertaining to, resembling, or having the motion of, an epicycle. Epicyclic train (Mach.), a train of mechanism in which epicyclic motion is involved; esp., a train of spur wheels, bevel wheels, or belt pulleys, in which an arm, carrying one or more of the wheels, sweeps around a center lying in an axis common to the ot…

Related to, resembling, or containing epidote; as, an epidotic granite.