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African elephant   /ˈæfrəkən ˈɛləfənt/   Listen
African elephant

noun
1.
An elephant native to Africa having enormous flapping ears and ivory tusks.  Synonym: Loxodonta africana.






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"African elephant" Quotes from Famous Books



... subsequent occasion the keeper made the old elephant trumpet much more loudly, and invariably both the upper and lower orbicular muscles were strongly contracted, and now in an equal degree. It is a singular fact that the African elephant, which, however, is so different from the Indian species that it is placed by some naturalists in a distinct sub-genus, when made on two occasions to trumpet loudly, exhibited no trace of the contraction ...
— The Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals • Charles Darwin



Words linked to "African elephant" :   genus Loxodonta, elephant, Loxodonta



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