elephantine
21Éléphantine — Île Éléphantine  Ne doit pas être confondu avec Île de l Éléphant ou Île d Éléphanta. Île Éléphantine L île Élé …
22elephantine — /el euh fan teen, tuyn, tin, el euh feuhn teen , tuyn /, adj. 1. pertaining to or resembling an elephant. 2. huge, ponderous, or clumsy: elephantine movements; elephantine humor. [1620 30; < L elephantinus < Gk elephántinos. See ELEPHANT, INE1] * …
23elephantine — [[t]e̱lɪfæ̱ntaɪn[/t]] ADJ GRADED (disapproval) If you describe something as elephantine, you mean that you think it is large and clumsy. ...elephantine clumsiness... His legs were elephantine and his body obese …
24Elephantine — 1. noun An island in the river Nile. 2. adjective Of, from, or pertaining to Elephantine or the Elephantine people …
25elephantine — adj. 1 of elephants. 2 a huge. b clumsy, unwieldy (elephantine movements; elephantine humour). Etymology: L elephantinus f. Gk elephantinos (as ELEPHANT) …
26elephantine — adjective Date: 1610 1. a. having enormous size or strength ; massive b. clumsy, ponderous < elephantine verse > 2. of or relating to an elephant …
27Elephantine — Greek name for the Egyptian Abu, modern Aswan, capital of the first nome of Upper Egypt. The site located on an island in the Nile marked the southern limit of the border of Egypt proper and was the main entrepot for goods imported from the… …
28elephantine — el|e|phan|tine [ˌelıˈfæntaın US ti:n] adj formal slow, heavy, and awkward, like an elephant ▪ elephantine footsteps …
29elephantine — adjective formal slow, heavy, and awkward, like an elephant: She climbed the steps with heavy elephantine movements …
30elephantine — adjective a tropical plant with elephantine leaves Syn: enormous, huge, gigantic, very big, massive, giant, immense, tremendous, colossal, mammoth, gargantuan, vast, prodigious, monumental, titanic; hulking, bulky, heavy …
