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Elephas

noun
1.
Type genus of the family Elephantidae.  Synonym: genus Elephas.



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... interesting questions, belong to the present time. To complete the connection of these primitive people with the fossil ages, the French geologists, we are told, have now "found these axes in Picardy associated with remains of Elephas primigenius, Rhinoceros tichorhinus, Equus fossilis, and an extinct species of Bos."[III-2] In plain language, these workers in flint lived in the time of the mammoth, of a rhinoceros now extinct, and along with horses and cattle unlike any now existing—specifically different, as naturalists ...
— Darwiniana - Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism • Asa Gray
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Words linked to "Elephas" :   family Elephantidae, Elephantidae, mammal genus, Indian elephant


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