Meaning | Five-toed pachyderm. |
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Member of | Elephantidae, family Elephantidae | elephants |
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Parts | proboscis, trunk | A long flexible snout as of an elephant |
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tusk | A long pointed tooth specialized for fighting or digging |
Narrower | African elephant, Loxodonta africana | An elephant native to Africa having enormous flapping ears and ivory tusks |
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Indian elephant, Elephas maximus | Asian elephant having smaller ears and tusks primarily in the male |
gomphothere | Extinct elephants of Central American and South America |
mammoth | Any of numerous extinct elephants widely distributed in the Pleistocene |
rogue elephant | A wild and vicious elephant separated from the herd |
Broader | pachyderm | Any of various nonruminant hoofed mammals having very thick skin |
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proboscidean, proboscidian | massive herbivorous mammals having tusks and a long trunk |
Spanish | elefante, elephantidae |
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Catalan | elefant |
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