elephas

The smallest, cotinis texana, is 2 cm long, while the largest is a massive 20 cm long megasoma elephas.

Cyborg beetles Edstock 2009

Persian, which ignores short final vowels; “fil,” and, with the article, “Al-fil,” in Arabic, which supplies the place of p (an unknown letter to it), by f; and elephas in

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

French scientists, even before it; and that, palæontologically speaking, man and {89} mammoth lived at the same time, and, according to a discovery made some thirty years ago at Denise in Middle France, probably even man and another older and defunct form of pachydermata, the elephas meridionalis, in North America man and the mastodon.

The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality Rudolf Schmid

He showed me flint hatchets which he had dug up with his own hands, mixed indiscriminately with molars of elephas primigenius.

A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume III: Modern development of the physical sciences 1904

* There have been found in the gravel Tertiary mammals including elephas primigenius, elephas Namadicus, stegodon Clifti, and unnamed varieties of bear, deer, bison, ox, horse, rhinoceros, and whale.

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

However this may be, it is clear that at the dawn of civilization the species of the genus elephas had become limited to that part of the African continent which lies south of the Sahara, and to the portion of Asia east of the Persian Gulf and south of

Domesticated Animals Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization Nathaniel Southgate Shaler 1873

The Greek [Greek: elephas], to which we are immediately indebted for it, did not originally mean the animal, but, as early as the time of Homer, was applied only to its tusks, and signified _ivory_.

Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon James Emerson Tennent 1836

This Sanskrit name, PICTET supposes, may have been carried to the West by the Phoenicians, who were the purveyors of ivory from India; and, from the Greek, the Latins derived _elephas_, which passed into the modern languages of Italy, Germany, and France.

Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon James Emerson Tennent 1836

'Facilius elephas per foramen acus', is among the Hebrew adages collected by Drusius; the same metaphor is found in two other Jewish proverbs, and this appears to determine the signification of [Greek (transliterated): chamaelos].

Poems, 1799 Robert Southey 1808

: - O The tag on that one really big beetle says "Megasoma elephas - Elephant Beetle".

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