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  • adjective Similar to an elephant
  • adjective Similar to that of an elephant; as, an elephantlike trunk
  • adjective figuratively (Of memory) which is very good; a person with elephantlike memory rarely or never forgets things.

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Examples

  • Lying in the shadows in a disconsolate heap was a large -- enormous, actually -- hairy elephantlike crea - ture!

    Stalling 2010

  • Golan Levin, an artist, designed a large, elephantlike snout, dubbed Double-Taker, that turns and looks at passing pedestrians.

    Pittsburgh Puts Robots to Work, 2008

  • MacInnes and Fuchs had each found fragments of teeth from an extinct elephantlike animal known as Deinotherium.

    Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

  • MacInnes and Fuchs had each found fragments of teeth from an extinct elephantlike animal known as Deinotherium.

    Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

  • Except for a ten-inch, elephantlike schnoz he could have passed for the world's fattest human, but he was Loghyr, one of a race so rare nobody has seen a live one in my lifetime.

    Dread Brass Shadows Cook, Glen 1990

  • Lying in the shadows in a disconsolate heap was a large -- enormous, actually -- hairy elephantlike crea - ture!

    Kendermore Kirchoff, Mary 1989

  • "There's evidence that they have an elephantlike social structure, and even some form of culture," said Joel Berger, a researcher with the

    NYT > Home Page By NATALIE ANGIER 2010

  • Some are obvious, like bovine ` cowlike, 'canine ` dog-like,' feline ` catlike, 'elephantine ` elephantlike' and equine

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol III No 3 1976

  • By November she had three digs in progress: the Zinj living floor; Jonny’s site; and another one midway between these two called FLK-N, where they had discovered a hominid toe bone and quantities of artifacts surrounding the complete skeleton of the elephantlike creature Deinotherium giganteum.

    Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

  • In Buluk’s deposits, the team picked up everything from extinct species of giant hyraxes to previously unknown species of elephantlike animals, large bear like carnivores, strange antelopes, and huge crocodiles.

    Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

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