elephant

Definition

  • noun: a very large gray animal that has a long, flexible nose and two long tusks
  • noun: any of a family (Elephantidae, the elephant family) of thickset usually extremely large nearly hairless herbivorous mammals that have a snout elongated into a muscular trunk and two incisors in the upper jaw developed especially in the male into large ivory tusks and that include two living forms and various extinct relatives
  • synonyms: ivory, foal, tusker

Examples

  • The run-down historic building has been the city's 'white elephant'.

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