elephantish
Collocations
3ADJ.
massive, whole
VERB + ELEPHANTISH
hunting, look
ELEPHANTISH + NOUN
creatures
Definitions
adj
Resembling an elephant.
It is an extinct animal, and on the whole was elephantish, but belonged to the genus Dinotherium, of the group Pachydermata or Proboscidea, to which the mammoth and elephant belong.
They’d watched a herd of cat-sized lizards hunting massive elephantish creatures.
Resembling an elephant.
The majority of women in the current study did voice a dislike of pregnancy for reasons to do with the inherent unpleasantness of being ‘too fat’, ‘out of control’, ‘elephantish’, ‘heavy’, and being unable to fit into ordinary clothes.
Even Clementine sighed, in an elephantish way.
Typical of an elephant.
The cleverest but one of all the animals in the circus was the elephant, and he hated the circus man too, and hated having to do silly tricks, which weren’t really a bit elephantish, but only stupid.
Thus an elephant remains the same elephant although it changes size (within limits), provided it keeps other elephantish features.
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3It is an extinct animal, and on the whole was elephantish, but belonged to the genus Dinotherium, of the group Pachydermata or Proboscidea, to which the mammoth and elephant belong.
WiktionaryThey’d watched a herd of cat-sized lizards hunting massive elephantish creatures.
WiktionaryThere was a rustle and a bustle and Tiddles reappeared, looking rather sheepish. Can an elephant look sheepish? Can a sheep look elephantish? Do we care? No, we don’t.
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