elephantine : Idioms & Phrases


Elephantine epoch

  • (Geol.), the epoch distinguished by the existence of large pachyderms. Mantell.
Webster 1913

Elephantine tortoise

  • (Zoöl.), a huge land tortoise; esp., Testudo elephantina, from islands in the Indian Ocean; and T. elephantopus, from the Galapagos Islands.
Webster 1913