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the upper jaw, and curving upwards. The molar teeth are large and have transverse folds. Elephants are the largest land animals now existing.

Affected with elephantiasis; characteristic of elephantiasis.

skin, in which it become enormously thickened, and is rough, hard, and fissured, like an elephant's hide.

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.

Composed of, or adorned with, gold and ivory.

An elephant that is furnished with a pad for carrying burdens instead of with a howdah for carrying passengers.

A very large seal (Macrorhinus proboscideus) of the Antarctic seas, much hunted for its oil. It sometimes attains a length of thirty feet, and is remarkable for the prolongation of the nose of the adult male into an erectile elastic proboscis, about a foot in length. Another species of smaller size (M. angustirostris)…

The hippopotamus. [R.]

Something requiring much care and expense and yielding little profit; any burdensome possession. [Slang]

d pupil and pink or blue iris. The term is also used of the lower animals, as white mice, elephants, etc.; and of plants in a whitish condition from the absence of chlorophyll. Amer. Cyc.

rous mammals characterized by having the hoofs in a single series around the foot, as the elephant, rhinoceros, etc.

An elephant goad with a sharp spike and hook, resembling a short-handled boat hook. [India] Kipling.

) with an agreeably acid fruit resembling a cherry. -- Barbados leg (Med.), a species of elephantiasis incident to hot climates. -- Barbados nuts, the seeds of the Jatropha curcas, a plant growing in South America and elsewhere. The seeds and their acrid oil are used in medicine as a purgative. See Physic nut.…

he male of any species of cattle (Bovidæ); hence, the male of any large quadruped, as the elephant; also, the male of the whale.

, or of the Bovine family of quadrupeds. Also, the young of some other mammals, as of the elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, and whale.

A small tower, as on a ship, or an elephant's back.

s, and were allied to those animals, but had short, plantigrade, five-toed feet, like the elephant.

Disposed to be taught; tractable; easily managed; as, a docile child. The elephant is at once docible and docile. C. J. Smith.

Elephantiasis. [Obs.] Holland.