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
Despite Casey’s protestations, the dog somehow ends up in her backpack, and when Clifford blows up to elephantine proportions, it sets off a series of wild adventures through the city.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 9, 2021
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
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