Elephant is a synonym of africana.
As nouns the difference between africana and elephant
is that africana is collectible objects, such as maps, documents and artifacts, peculiar to Africa, especially Southern Africa while elephant is a mammal of the order Proboscidea, having a trunk, and two large ivory tusks jutting from the upper jaw.
africana
English
Noun
(
en-plural noun)
Collectible objects, such as maps, documents and artifacts, peculiar to Africa, especially Southern Africa.
- Africana is a word of many different meanings; to one it means books and other printed or manuscript material, to another it means objects other than books. For ''Africana Notes and News'' it is used in its widest sense ... it is restricted only from a geographical point of view; it denotes not the whole of Africa but only Southern Africa. (Africana Notes & News, 1943)
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elephant
English
Noun
(
en noun)
A mammal of the order Proboscidea , having a trunk, and two large ivory tusks jutting from the upper jaw.
(figuratively) Anything huge and ponderous.
(paper, printing) A printing-paper size measuring 30 inches x 22 inches.
(British, childish) used when counting to add length, so that each count takes about one second.
- Let's play hide and seek. I'll count. One elephant''', two '''elephant''', three '''elephant ...
(obsolete) ivory
- (Dryden)
Synonyms
* (animal) Elephas maximus'', ''Loxodonta africana
* (counting term) see
Hyponyms
* (animal) African bush elephant, African forest elephant, Indian elephant, African elephant
Derived terms
* African bush elephant
* African elephant
* African forest elephant
* Asian elephant
* Asiatic elephant
* Borneo elephant, Borneo pygmy elephant
* double elephant, double elephant paper
* dwarf elephant
* elephant apple
* elephant bed
* elephant beetle
* elephant bird, elephantbird
* elephant chess
* elephant-color, elephant-colour
* elephant cord
* elephant creeper
* elephant ear, elephant ears
* elephant fish
* elephant flipping
* elephant folio
* Elephant Gambit
* elephant garlic
* elephant grass
* elephant-gravel
* elephant-gray, elephant-grey
* elephant gun
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* elephant hawk moth
* elephanticide
* elephantide
* 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
* (Elephant Man)
* elephant man's disease
* elephant man's syndrome
* elephant on the dinner table
* elephant paper
* elephant-path
* elephant pearl
* elephant polo
* 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
* elephantship
* elephant shrew
* elephant's teeth
* elephant's trunk, elephant trunk
* Elephant's Trunk Nebula
* elephant's trunk plant
* elephant's trunk snake
* elephant's tusk
* elephant's-tusks
* elephant's-vine
* elephant test
* elephant trank
* elephant tranquilizer, elephant tranquilliser, elephant tranquillizer
* Elephant Trap
* elephant tree
* elephant-trumpet
* elephant-trunk fish
* Elephant Trunk nebula
* elephant-tusk
* elephant yam
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* forest elephant
* get a look at the elephant
* imperial elephant
* Indian elephant
* Most Exalted Order of the White Elephant
* Order of the Elephant
* pad elephant
* pink elephant
* pink elephants
* pseudelephant
* pygmy elephant
* retail elephant
* rogue elephant
* savanna elephant, savannah elephant
* sea elephant
* see the elephant
* show the elephant
* Sri Lankan elephant
* straight-tusked elephant
* Sumatran elephant
* temple elephant
* war elephant
* water elephant
* white elephant
Related terms
* chryselephantine
* elephancy
* elephanta
* elephanter
* elephantiac
* elephantiasis
* elephantic
* Elephantidae
* elephantine
* elephantoid
* Elephantopus
* Elephas
