(n.) A mammal of the order Proboscidia, of which two living species, Elephas Indicus and E. Africanus, and several fossil species, are known. They have a proboscis or trunk, and two large ivory tusks proceeding from the extremity of the upper jaw, and curving upwards. The molar teeth are large and have transverse folds. Elephants are the largest land animals now existing.
(n.) Ivory; the tusk of the elephant.
Example Sentences:
(1) The hymen was not penetrated as a result of intromission and therefore the site of ejaculation would have been in the urogenital canal of the 4 primigravid elephants.
(2) In June, a notorious elephant poacher led a gang of bandits in an attack on the Okapi wildlife reserve in DRC, killing seven people.
(3) Spending time with the baby elephants was very special; the best bit was watching them have a mud bath and occasionally joining in!
(4) Some of these are functions that would once have been taken on through squatting – and sometimes still are, as at Open House , a social centre recently and precariously opened in London's Elephant & Castle, an area torn apart by rampant gentrification, where estates are flogged off to developers with zero commitment to public housing and the aforementioned "shopping village" is located in a derelict estate.
(5) In December he smashed apart the Roman forces in the north, assisted by his awesome elephants, the tanks of classical warfare.
(6) Yang Feng Glan is accused of smuggling 706 elephant tusks worth £1.62m from Tanzania to the far east.
(7) Prince William is due to make a speech about conservation at an elephant sanctuary in China on 4 March.
(8) We haven’t ascertained how much of the forests it has taken over, but a significant portion may in reality be unpalatable weeds and effectively unusable from an elephant’s perspective.
(9) We’ve sent one of our writers to Kenya to meet the elephants, and some of the people who seek to look after them, just as news breaks that elephant numbers are dramatically down.
(10) It’s home to a quarter of a million people, about 150 elephants and a host of other wild animals ranging from bears and tigers to flycatchers and martens.
(11) Kenya's president has set fire to more than five tonnes of elephant ivory worth £10m to draw attention to poaching deaths.
(12) On the other hand the government and the police have got a duty to ensure that people in the Department of Defence are not breaching national security by giving stuff to you.” The Greens senator Scott Ludlam, who provided his own circumvention tips during the Senate debate on Tuesday, said Turnbull’s explanation indicated data retention could be a “$300m white elephant”.
(13) Through the year, a herd of elephants may move over a very large area in search of food and water – sometimes more than 1,000 square kilometres.
(14) At 5pm each night, local TV stations broadcast the locations of all elephants on the plateau.
(15) Sudanese poachers were responsible for the recent mass slaughter of 26 elephants at world heritage Dzanga-Ndoki national park in the CAR.
(16) We have a few quotations from a compendium of jokes of the first emperor Augustus (not all brilliant: "When a man was nervously giving him a petition and kept putting his hand out, then drawing it back, the emperor quipped, 'Hey, do you think you're giving a penny to an elephant?'").
(17) … the party wants to run a highly disciplined election campaign – there can be no place for a rogue elephant."
(18) In January, poachers shot down a helicopter in Tanzania and killed its British pilot during an operation to track down elephant killers while, in October last year, 14 elephants were poisoned by cyanide in Zimbabwe .
(19) It would be kind of a big elephant to have missed."
(20) A realistic elephant might serve as a memento to the hundred elephants killed for their ivory every day.
Elephantoid
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Elephantoidal
Example Sentences:
(1) Before attempting to excise the extensive elephantoid tissues, the spermatic cord and testes with their coverings were taken out by two small lateral incisions, which made the operation easier and less time-consuming and minimized the complications.
(2) Out of 19 sera from endemic residents, three of 7 endemic normals (ENS), all microfilaraemics (mf+) (n = 7) and 4 out of 5 elephantoid patient sera were positive.
(3) Three hundred fifty patients with elephantiasis of the penis and scrotum were surgically treated by excision of all elephantoid skin and subcutaneous tissues.
(4) Endemic normal sera and elephantoid sera, which exerted maximum cytotoxicity, together specifically recognised three proteins with molecular weights 25, 58 and 68 KDa and these three proteins could be among the candidate antigens that induce resistance to filarial infection.
(5) Body itching was the most commonly observed clinical sign (14.7%), followed by joint pains (12.41%) with elephantoid scrotum (3.5%) as the least.
(6) Clinical signs observed in most infected persons include body itching, joint and back pains, occasional giddiness and elephantoid scrotum.
(7) Tendon transfer and bulk reduction procedures are an alternative to amputation of the elephantoid enlarged limb with neurofibromatosis and paralysis.
(8) An active, robust, alert 90-year-old man has had nodular elephantoid lymphedema on his left leg for sixty-one years.
(9) Eight persons were found with elephantoid scrotums and all had microfilariae of M. perstans.
(10) Individuals residing in an area endemic to Wuchereria bancrofti infection were broadly categorised as endemic normals (EN), microfilaraemics (mf + ve) and elephantoids i.e., chronic lymphatic filariasis (EL).
(11) Approximately 50% of the hind legs of cats infected with Brugia malayi and insulted with a beta haemolytic streptococcus became elephantoid in appearance after four to six weeks.
(12) The morphogenetic aberrations were determined and divided into 8 groups, among which they included (1) death larvae, (2) late fourth instar larvae before pupation, (3) larvae with pupae partly emerged, (4) white pupae, (5) brown pupae, (6) elephantoid pupae of which pupae with adults visible inside, (7) pupae with apparently adults partly emerged and (8) death adults.
(13) Histologic examination of elephantoid mice revealed dilated and tortuous lymphatics containing small nonobstructive lymph thrombi composed of small mononuclear cells and multinucleate giant cells.
(14) Many endemic normal sera and most elephantoid sera exerted strong cytotoxicity against W. bancrofti microfilariae whereas none of the mf + ve sera had any such activity.
(15) Immunodeficient nude mice chronically parasitized by subperiodic Brugia malayi developed an elephantoid appearance with persistent lymphoedema of limbs and massive lymphangiectasis of subcutaneous vessels containing viable adult worms.