About The Word Elephantine
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Elephantine
Elephantine Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Elephantine?
[adj] of great mass; huge and bulky; "a jumbo jet"; "jumbo shrimp"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Elephantine: big | gargantuan | giant | jumbo | large Related Terms | Find terms related to Elephantine: abysmal | arid | astronomic | Atlantean | awkward | barren | blah | blank | bloodless | bombastic | Brobdingnagian | bulky | characterless | clumsy | cold | colorless | colossal | cramped | cumbersome | cumbrous | Cyclopean | dead | dismal | draggy | drearisome | dreary | dry | dryasdust | dull | dusty | effete | elephantlike | empty | enormous | epic | etiolated | fade | flat | forced | formal | Gargantuan | giant | giantlike | gigantic | graceless | guinde | halting | heavy | heavy-handed | Herculean | heroic | ho-hum | hollow | Homeric | huge | hulking | hulky | immense | inane | inexcitable | infinite | inkhorn | insipid | jejune | jumbo | labored | Latinate | leaden | lifeless | low-spirited | lubberly | lumbering | lumpish | lumpy | maladroit | mammoth | massive | massy | mighty | monster | monstrous | monumental | mountainous | pale | pallid | pedestrian | plodding | pointless | poky | pompous | ponderous | prodigious | profound | sesquipedalian | slow | solemn | spiritless | sterile | stiff | stilted | stodgy | stuffy | stupendous | superficial | tasteless | tedious | titanic | towering | tremendous | turgid | ungraceful | uninspired | unlively | unwieldy | vapid | vast | wooden See Also | Elephantine In Webster's Dictionary \El`e*phan"tine\, a. [L. elephantinus of ivory, Gr.
?: cf. F. ['e]l['e]phantin.]
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} (Zo["o]l.), a huge land tortoise;
esp., {Testudo elephantina}, from islands in the Indian
Ocean; and {T. elephantopus}, from the Galapagos Islands.
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