elephantine

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Extremely large and heavy.

   The old elephantine wardrobe barely fit through the door.

2. 2
   adj

   Of, or like, an elephant.

   Huge, elephantine shapes loomed in the misty dark.

From Latin elephantīn(us). By surface analysis, elephant + -ine.

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