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Elephas

noun
1.
Type genus of the family Elephantidae.  Synonym: genus Elephas.



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"Elephas" Quotes from Famous Books



... and unexpected discoveries, man ascended endless centuries in the scale of time; he, in fact, preceded the mastodon; became the contemporary of the Elephas meridionalis—the southern elephant; acquired an antiquity of over a hundred thousand years, since that is the date given by the most eminent geologists to the Pliocene period of the earth. Such was then ...
— A Journey to the Centre of the Earth • Jules Verne


Words linked to "Elephas" :   genus Elephas, Elephantidae, mammal genus, Indian elephant, family Elephantidae


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