elephantine, gargantuan, giant, jumbo
(adjective) of great mass; huge and bulky; “a jumbo jet”; “jumbo shrimp”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Elephantine
An island in the river Nile, and the ancient city that occupied it.
Elephantine (not comparable)
Of, from, or pertaining to Elephantine or the Elephantine people.
elephantine (comparative more elephantine, superlative most elephantine)
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of elephants.
Very large.
• (of or relating to elephants): elephantic, elephantlike
• (very large): See also gigantic
Source: Wiktionary
El`e*phan"tine, a. Etym: [L. elephantinus of ivory, Gr. éléphantin.]
Definition: Pertaining to the elephant, or resembling an elephant (commonly, in size); hence, huge; immense; heavy; as, of elephantine proportions; an elephantine step or tread. Elephantine epoch (Geol.), the epoch distinguished by the existence of large pachyderms. Mantell.
– Elephantine tortoise (Zoöl.), a huge land tortoise; esp., Testudo elephantina, from islands in the Indian Ocean; and T. elephantopus, from the Galapagos Islands.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 October 2024
(adjective) lacking eyes or eyelike features; “eyeless fish that evolved in dark caves”; “an eyeless needle”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
