Associations to the word «Elephantine»

Wiktionary

ELEPHANTINE, adjective. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of elephants.
ELEPHANTINE, adjective. Very large.
ELEPHANTINE, proper noun. An island in the river Nile, and the ancient city that occupied it.
ELEPHANTINE, adjective. Of, from, or pertaining to Elephantine or the Elephantine people.
ELEPHANTINE TORTOISE, noun. A huge land tortoise, especially Testudo elephantina, from islands in the Indian Ocean, or T. elephantopus, from the Galapagos Islands.

Dictionary definition

ELEPHANTINE, adjective. Of great mass; huge and bulky; "a jumbo jet"; "jumbo shrimp".

Wise words

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Friedrich Nietzsche