African elephant

[ af-ri-kuhn el-uh-fuhnt ]

/ ˈæf rɪ kən ˈɛl ə fənt /

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noun

an elephant of the genus Loxodonta, with two extant species, the larger African bush elephant and the African forest elephant, both found in sub-Saharan Africa and previously considered subspecies rather than genetically distinct: compared to an Asian elephant, an African elephant is larger and has enormous ears, a rounder head, a trunk ending in two fingers rather than one, and conspicuous tusks occurring in both genders.

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Origin of African elephant

First recorded in 1600–20

historical usage of African elephant

See Borneo elephant.

Words nearby African elephant

African bush elephant, African-Canadian, African cherry-orange, African daisy, African dominoes, African elephant, African forest elephant, African grape, African horse sickness, Africanism, Africanist

How to use African elephant in a sentence

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Ed Brooke, the first African-American Senator since Reconstruction, embraced fights with the left and right.
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Still, for all of this, South Carolina is now represented in the U.S. Senate by Tim Scott, a Republican and an African-American.
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Finally, we have a major film on civil rights in which African Americans are the heroes in their own story.
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Among African Americans, the likes of Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, or Jeremiah Wright cannot do it.
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The female elephant killed by our hunters at this time was a comparatively small one.
Hunting the Lions|R.M. Ballantyne
The elephant ran straight on and went right through the whole party, but came near no one.
Hunting the Lions|R.M. Ballantyne
The elephant did not follow, but the hunters, having discovered her retreat, were not slow to follow and attack her.
Hunting the Lions|R.M. Ballantyne
But he soon got over his fear, and was so busy feeding the elephant, that his papa had to coax him away.
The Nursery, July 1873, Vol. XIV. No. 1|Various
I looked up at sound of a startled exclamation, and beheld the round African physog of Lyn Rowan's colored mammy.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair