elephant

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈɛlɪfənt/    美 /ˈɛləfənt/|/ˈeləfənt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A large mammal of the family Elephantidae in the order Proboscidea, having a trunk, and native to Africa and Asia. countable,uncountable
  2. Anything huge and ponderous. countable,figuratively,uncountable
  3. Synonym of elephant paper. countable,uncountable
  4. used when counting to add length, so that each count takes about one second UK,childish,countable,uncountable
    — Let's play hide and seek. I'll count. One elephant, two elephant, three elephant...
  5. Ivory. obsolete,uncountable
    — He sent rich gifts of elephant and gold.
  6. A xiangqi piece that is moved two points diagonally, may not jump over intervening pieces and may not cross the river. countable,uncountable

词形变化

elephants plural

词汇关系

近义词
elephant oliphaunt
上位词
mammal vertebrate animal creature
下位词
African bush elephant African forest elephant Indian elephant African elephant Asian elephant mammoth white elephant bull koomkie tusker
衍生词
African bush elephant African elephant African forest elephant African savannah elephant Asian elephant Asiatic elephant baby elephant in the room Borneo elephant bull elephant cow elephant double elephant dwarf elephant eat an elephant one bite at a time Elephant and Castle elephant apple elephantback elephant bed elephant beetle elephant bird elephantbird elephant bug elephant bush elephant calf elephant chess elephant-color elephant-colour elephant cord elephant creeper elephantdom elephant dose elephant ear elephant ears elephant-ear tree elephantesque elephantess elephantfish elephant fish elephant flipping elephant folio elephant foot Elephant Gambit elephant garlic elephant grass elephant-gravel elephant-gray elephant-grey elephant gun Elephant Hall elephant hawk moth elephanthood elephanticide elephantid elephant in Cairo elephant in the corner elephant in the kitchen elephant in the living room elephant in the room Elephant Island elephantitis elephant joke elephant juice elephant leg elephantlike elephant louse Elephant Man elephant man's disease elephant man's syndrome elephant on the dinner table elephantophile elephant paper elephant-path elephant pearl elephant polo elephant race elephant-rain elephantry elephant's breath elephant seal elephant's ear elephant's ears Elephant's Foot elephant's foot umbrella stand elephant's-grass elephants' graveyard elephant shark elephant's head elephantship elephant shrew elephant skin elephant snout elephant's snout volute elephant's teeth elephant's tooth elephant's toothpaste elephant's trunk elephant trunk Elephant's Trunk Nebula elephant's trunk plant elephant's tusk elephant's-tusks elephant's-vine elephant test elephant thorn elephant toothpaste elephant tortoise elephant trank elephant tranquilizer elephant trap elephant tree elephant-trumpet elephant trunkfish elephant trunk fish Elephant Trunk nebula elephant trunk snake elephant-tusk elephant walk elephanty elephant yam Flying Elephant forest elephant get a look at the elephant he-elephant imperial elephant Indian elephant irrelephant mammophant mimophant Most Exalted Order of the White Elephant North African elephant Order of the Elephant pad elephant pink elephant pink elephants pseudelephant pygmy elephant retail elephant rogue elephant savanna elephant savannah elephant sea-elephant Sea Elephant the elephant she-elephant shoot an elephant with a BB gun show the elephant Sri Lankan elephant straight-tusked elephant Sumatran elephant temple elephant war elephant water elephant were-elephant white elephant
相关词
chryselephantine elephancy elephanta elephanter elephantiac elephantiasis elephantic Elephantidae elephantine elephantoid Elephantopus Elephas howdah keddah mahout trumpet deinothere stegodont
部分词
trunk tusk ivory

词源

From Middle English elefant, elefaunt, from Old French elefant, elefan, olifant, re-latinized in Middle French as elephant, from Latin elephantus, from Ancient Greek ἐλέφᾱς (eléphās) (gen. ἐλέφαντος (eléphantos)). Believed to be derived from an Afroasiatic form such as Proto-Berber *eḷu (“elephant”) (compare Tamahaq êlu, Tamasheq alu) or Egyptian ꜣbw (“elephant; ivory”). More at ivory. Replaced Middle English olifant (from the aforementioned Old French form, from Vulgar Latin *olifantus), which replaced Old English elpend (“elephant”).
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