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Answer for the clue "Massive mammal ", 8 letters:
elephant

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Word definitions for elephant in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
pachyderm \pach"y*derm\ (p[a^]k"[i^]*d[~e]rm), n. [Cf. F. pachyderme.] (Zo["o]l.) Any of various nonruminant hoofed mammals having very thick skin, including the elephant , rhinoceros , and hippopotamus , one of the Pachydermata.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Elephant is a 1989 British short film directed by Alan Clarke and produced by Danny Boyle . The film is set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles and its title comes from Bernard MacLaverty's description of the conflict as " the elephant in our living ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, olyfaunt , from Old French olifant (12c., Modern French éléphant ), from Latin elephantus , from Greek elephas (genitive elephantos ) "elephant; ivory," probably from a non-Indo-European language, likely via Phoenician (compare Hamitic elu "elephant," ...

Usage examples of elephant.

Stegodon is a type of extinct elephant, and Ailuropoda is the giant panda.

Now two elephants joined the procession, and the animals and man and woman ran around the rings and passed the lumbering ankylosaur twice.

When the ashcans burst, it was like a kick in the ass from an elephant.

After a delay of a day or two, to rest the animals, which included sixty-seven elephants which had been brought from Bengal, the army set out for Bangalore, the second largest town in Mysore.

Jewels Androclus and the Lion Horatius at the Bridge Julius Caesar The Sword of Damocles Damon and Pythias A Laconic Answer The Ungrateful Guest Alexander and Bucephalus Diogenes the Wise Man The Brave Three Hundred Socrates and his House The King and his Hawk Doctor Goldsmith The Kingdoms The Barmecide Feast The Endless Tale The Blind Men and the Elephant Maximilian and the Goose Boy The Inchcape Rock Whittington and his Cat Casabianca Antonio Canova Picciola Mignon CONCERNING THESE STORIES.

I saw Bharata Rahon suddenly stab you and then throw you from the howdah of your elephant.

I have hastened to you to ask for men and elephants wherewith I may pursue Bharata Rahon and save Fou-tan from his treachery.

Bala Bhat, was wounded in the battle, and it is said that his general of cavalry, Teeka Singh, had his elephant killed under him.

With this rifle he had killed leopards, lions, rhinos, buffalos, elephants by the hundred-and men, many men, in the days of the Rhodesian bush war.

Down in the jungles of Champa, he said, where the elephants came from, there were such things as white elephants.

Everywhere in Champa, she said, a bull elephant of sixty years was taken to represent the very peak of strength, virility and masculine powers.

I looked ahead and saw nothing but a herd of chimpanzoids, playfully cavorting inside a plastiflesh carcass of an elephant.

So in the day of Neela Deo, most exalted King of all elephants, came a runner at the end of his last strength.

So the people of Hurda went out to meet Neela Deo, King of all elephants.

Now the people saw that this celebration for Neela Deo, King of all elephants, was to show as much pomp as is prepared for kings of men--and they were deeply content.