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

By the 1960s, Mr. Lorayne was best known for holding audiences rapt with feats of memory that bordered on the elephantine.

From New York Times • Apr. 7, 2023

He collected fragments from a pig-size guinea pig, armor plates from a tanklike armadillo, more elephantine bones from elephantine sloths, and crated and shipped them to England.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee