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elephant

el.e.phant \'el-*-f*nt\ n [ME, fr. OF & L; OF olifant, fr. L elephantus, 
   fr. Gk elephant-)X, elephas : any of various thickset mostly very large 
   nearly hairless four-footed ma mmals constituting with related extinct 
   forms the elephant family (Elephantidae) and having the snout prolonged 
   into a muscular trunk and two incisors in the upper jaw developed esp. in 
   the male into long tusks which furnish ivory; broadly : a related animal or 
   fossil