elephant

**el**|**e**|**phant** «EHL uh fuhnt», //noun,// //plural// **-phants** or //(//collectively//)// **-phant**. A huge, heavy mammal, the largest land animal in the world that is now living. It has a long snout called a //trunk.// it comes from its tusks, which develop from the upper teeth. Elephants are partly hairless. They have four or five toes on each foot and three toes on each hind foot. Two species of the elephant is the Indian and the African elephant, that exist today. **African elephants** have large ears and both the males and females have tusks. **Indian** and **Asian elephants** have smaller ears than the African elephants and the females have no tusks. //In some parts of India, travel by elephant is the only way a person can get through a dense jungle// (A. M. Winchester).

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