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Definition of Elephants
1. elephant [n] - See also: elephant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Elephants
Literary usage of Elephants
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1867)
".Keeping this distinction in view, there is little doubt that the higher order
of animals, the Elephants especially, have what we should call the ..."
2. The Grecian History: From the Earliest State to the Death of Alexander the Great by Oliver Goldsmith (1826)
"This battle was very different from all those which Alexander had hitherto fought;
for the elephants rushing upon the battalions, broke with inexpressible ..."
3. A History of Ancient Geography Among the Greeks and Romans from the Earliest by Edward Herbert Bunbury (1883)
"The elephants also which are represented on Roman coins and monuments belong in
all cases to the African and not the Indian variety: the very large size of ..."
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