Онлайн-словарь

 noun (plural elephants; also elephant) 
 Usage: often attributive 
 Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French olifant, elefant, from L. elephantus, from Greek elephant-, elephas
 Date: 14th century
 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: as, a tall large-eared mammal ( Loxodonta africana ) of tropical Africa, a relatively small-eared mammal ( Elephas maximus ) of forests of southeastern Asia, an animal or fossil related to the elephants, one that is uncommonly large or hard to manage

 elephant bird 
  noun 
 Date: circa 1889
 any of a group (genus  Aepyornis or order Aepyornithiformes) of gigantic flightless ratite birds known only from remains found in Madagascar

 elephant garlic 
  noun 
 Date: circa 1923
 an Old World herb ( Allium ampeloprasum ) of the lily family that is related to the leek and has a bulb that resembles that of garlic but is much larger

 elephant grass 
  noun 
 Date: 1832
 an Old World cattail ( Typha elephantina ) used especially in making baskets,  napier grass  

 elephant seal 
  noun 
 Date: 1839
 either of two very large seals (genus  Mirounga of the family Phocidae) characterized by a long inflatable proboscis:, one ( M. angustirostris ) found in Pacific coastal waters from southeastern Alaska to Baja California, one ( M. leonina ) found in coastal waters of subantarctic islands and Patagonia