Elephantine /(?)/
El·e·phan·tine
Elephantine
a.
- Pertaining to the elephant, or resembling an elephant (commonly, in size); hence, huge; immense; heavy; as, of elephantine proportions; an elephantine step or tread.
Phrases & Compounds
- Elephantine epoch
- the epoch distinguished by the existence of large pachyderms.
- Elephantine tortoise
- a huge land tortoise; esp., Testudo elephantina, from islands in the Indian Ocean; and T. elephantopus, from the Galapagos Islands.