elephantine

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It is often assumed that elephantine ponderousness is the price that must be paid for their storytelling heft.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

“My wobbling, elephantine car is no match for his agile V12 Mercedes, but I somehow keep up,” he writes.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2025

But a few kinds of mammals, like our elephantine friends and our fellow primates, have arrangements of mammary tissue on the chest.

From Slate • Aug. 13, 2024

The elephantine grand piano can easily bully its smaller partners or timidly overcompensate.

From New York Times • May 6, 2023

Then the red thing was past and the elephantine progress diminished toward the sea.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding