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IMPERIAL ELEPHANT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does imperial elephant mean?
• IMPERIAL ELEPHANT (noun)
The noun IMPERIAL ELEPHANT has 1 sense:
1. largest known mammoth; of America
Familiarity information: IMPERIAL ELEPHANT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Largest known mammoth; of America
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Archidiskidon imperator; imperial elephant; imperial mammoth
Hypernyms ("imperial elephant" is a kind of...):
mammoth (any of numerous extinct elephants widely distributed in the Pleistocene; extremely large with hairy coats and long upcurved tusks)
Holonyms ("imperial elephant" is a member of...):
Archidiskidon; genus Archidiskidon (a genus of Elephantidae)
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