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n. Either of two species of elephant, ''Loxodonta africana'' or ''Loxodonta cyclotis'', found in Africa.
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African elephants are elephants of the genus Loxodonta, from Greek λοξός (loxós 'slanting, crosswise, oblique sided') + ὀδούς (odoús, stem odónt-, 'tooth'). The genus consists of two extant species: the African bush elephant and the smaller African forest elephant. Loxodonta is one of two existing genera of the family, Elephantidae. Fossil remains of Loxodonta have been found only in Africa, in strata as old as the middle Pliocene.
Usage examples of "african elephant".
As Ptolemy Philopater testified of the African elephant, I then testified of the whale, pronouncing him the most devout of all beings.
But presently I guessed the identity of the mighty creature as Elephas africanus, or, as the ancients commonly described it, African elephant.
He had shot chamois and mouflon and red deer in the Pyrenees, but a wild African elephant is none of these timid creatures, and the Spaniard's heart was thudding into his ribs, his spectacles were fogged with sweat, and his hands shook.
She recognized the tall trees from the top branches of which, many years before, she had glimpsed her first wild African elephant, and a little of the childlike wonder of that moment had remained with her over all that time.
Hunters knew how difficult it was to bring down a four-ton African elephant—.
Hunters knew how difficult it was to bring down a four-ton African elephant-and some of the dinosaurs weighed ten times as much.
After Ousanas extolled the virtues of the African elephant, not forgetting to develop his point by way of contrast with the Indian elephant.
He stood eleven feet six inches, which is about as big as the biggest modern African elephant.
Schwartz and bought a fine plastic African elephant with an arched trunk and flared tusks.
Byrne said, 'The North African elephant went extinct about two thousand years ago.