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Meanings of African elephant in English

Russian
африканские слоны
Portuguese
elefante-africano-da-savana
Spanish
loxodontina
Catalan
loxodonta
Wikidata

Genus comprising two living elephant species.

Related terms
африканские слоны
Portuguese
elefante-africano
Catalan
elefant africà

An elephant native to Africa having enormous flapping ears and ivory tusks.

elefante-africano
Usage of African elephant in English
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The poaching problem The African elephant is under siege due to poaching.
The South African
2
I had a tusk of an African elephant that weighed 149 lbs.
Wild Beasts and Their Ways, Reminiscences of Europe, Asia, Afric...
3
In some estimates, an African elephant is being killed every 15 minutes.
The South African
4
The African elephant at present inhabits the central and southern parts of Africa.
The Bush Boys: History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his F...
5
The Bush, Savannah, and Desert elephants are all sub-species of the African elephant.
A Wiccan Bible
6
The African elephant also has well over 90 percent of the human gene sequence.
Ecological intelligence: rediscovering ourselves in nature (easy...
7
He was an African elephant, and they are all large.
Umboo, the Elephant
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The African elephant is about a foot higher than the average of the Indian species.
The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia, and the Sword Hunters of the ...
9
As the African elephant is a root-eater it is far more destructive than the Asiatic.
Wild Beasts and Their Ways, Reminiscences of Europe, Asia, Afric...
10
The habits of the African elephant are very different from those of his Indian cousins.
The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon
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In fact, its range appears to be exactly co-terminal with that of the African elephant.
Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found: A Book of Zoology for...
12
Rather than producing mammoth DNA from scratch, you could tweak DNA from an African elephant.
BBC
13
People hardly ever ride on an African elephant's back.
Umboo, the Elephant
14
Animal rights activists say a lilting of the ban, in 1989, will endanger the African elephant.
The Irish Times
15
The general food of the African elephant consists of the foliage of trees, especially of mimosas.
The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile, And Explorations of...
16
And I haven't taken an African elephant, yet.
News.com.au
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