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Definition of Loxodonta africana
1. Noun. An elephant native to Africa having enormous flapping ears and ivory tusks.
Generic synonyms: Elephant
Group relationships: Genus Loxodonta, Loxodonta
Lexicographical Neighbors of Loxodonta Africana
Literary usage of Loxodonta africana
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Organic Evolution by Richard Swann Lull (1917)
"Embryonic elephant, loxodonta africana 586 194. ... Molar tooth patterns of
African elephant, loxodonta africana, and Asiatic elephant, Elephas indicus ..."
2. Fossil Elephantoids: from the Hominid-Bearing Awash Group, Middle Awash by Jon Kalb (2007)
"... enamel loops on worn plates of Elephas, and oblique-sided ("lox" in Greek) or
lozenge-shaped enamel loops in loxodonta africana (Osborn, 1942, 1174). ..."
3. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1868)
"Recently there died in London a young female African Elephant, loxodonta africana ;
in the stomach of this animal Dr. Mûrie, who dissected it, ..."
4. Modern Abyssinia by Augustus Blandy Wylde (1901)
"... and the northern Danakil country being the ANT (loxodonta africana). Still found
but in always diminishing .ices where it is most numerous in the north, ..."
5. Through the Kalahari Desert: A Narrative of a Journey with Gun, Camera, and by William Hunt, G. Antonio Farini (1886)
"ELEPHANT (loxodonta africana). This huge pachyderm is being rapidly driven out
of South Africa, although the Government have reserved parks for its ..."
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