Elephant, el'-e-fant, s

the largest of existing quadrupeds, having a thick skin, a long flexible trunk, and two ivory tusks, and famous for its sagacity and docility, there being two species, the Asiatic or Indian and the African. The Order of the White Elephant, a very ancient Danish order of knighthood, restricted to thirty knights. The elephant beetle, a large species of the genus scarabæus. Elephant paper, a large-sized drawing paper. Elephant's foot, agenus of tropical plants, with a fleshy root used as food by the Hottentots. the limbs from their enlargement, and the thick, wrinkled, tuberculate state of the skin, resemble those of the elephant [Med.] resembling an elephant; huge; an appellation given to certain books in which the Romans registered the transactions of the senate, magistrates, emperors, and generals [Rom. Antiq.] Elephantine epoch, that period when there was a preponderance of the large pachyderm at a [Geol.]