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elephantine 音標拼音: [ ,ɛləf'ænt ,in] a. 象的,巨大的,粗笨的 象的,巨大的,粗笨的 elephantine adj 1: of great mass; huge and bulky; " a jumbo jet"; " jumbo shrimp" [ synonym: { elephantine}, { gargantuan}, { giant}, { jumbo}] Elephantine \ El` e* phan" tine\, a. [ L. elephantinus of ivory, Gr. ?: cf. F. [' e] l[' e] phantin.] Pertaining to the elephant, or resembling an elephant ( commonly, in size); hence, huge; immense; heavy; as, of elephantine proportions; an elephantine step or tread. [ 1913 Webster] { Elephantine epoch} ( Geol.), the epoch distinguished by the existence of large pachyderms. -- Mantell. { Elephantine tortoise} ( Zo[" o] l.), a huge land tortoise; esp., { Testudo elephantina}, from islands in the Indian Ocean; and { T. elephantopus}, from the Galapagos Islands. Elephantoid118 Moby Thesaurus words for " elephantine": Atlantean, Brobdingnagian, Cyclopean, Gargantuan, Herculean, Homeric, Latinate, abysmal, arid, astronomic, awkward, barren, blah, blank, bloodless, bombastic, bulky, characterless, clumsy, cold, colorless, colossal, cramped, cumbersome, cumbrous, dead, dismal, draggy, drearisome, dreary, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, effete, elephantlike, empty, enormous, epic, etiolated, fade, flat, forced, formal, gargantuan, giant, giantlike, gigantic, graceless, guinde, halting, heavy, heavy- handed, heroic, ho- hum, hollow, huge, hulking, hulky, immense, inane, inexcitable, infinite, inkhorn, insipid, jejune, jumbo, labored, leaden, lifeless, low- spirited, lubberly, lumbering, lumpish, lumpy, maladroit, mammoth, massive, massy, mighty, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, pale, pallid, pedestrian, plodding, pointless, poky, pompous, ponderous, prodigious, profound, sesquipedalian, slow, solemn, spiritless, sterile, stiff, stilted, stodgy, stuffy, stupendous, superficial, tasteless, tedious, titanic, towering, tremendous, turgid, ungraceful, uninspired, unlively, unwieldy, vapid, vast, wooden |
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