Oliphant vs. Elephant — What's the Difference?

An elephant.

Elephants are a select group of proboscideans belonging to the family Elephantidae. They are the largest existing land animals.

An ancient ivory hunting-horn.

Any of several very large herbivorous mammals of the family Elephantidae native to Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia, having thick, almost hairless skin, a long, flexible, prehensile trunk, upper incisors forming long curved tusks of ivory, and, in the African species, large fan-shaped ears.

Any of various extinct animals of the family Elephantidae.

A mammal of the order Proboscidea, having a trunk, and two large ivory tusks jutting from the upper jaw.

(in particular) Any member of the subfamily Elephantinae not also of the genera Mammuthus and Primelephas.

(figuratively) Anything huge and ponderous.

Synonym of elephant paper

Used when counting to add length, so that each count takes about one second

Ivory.

(xiangqi) A xiangqi piece, that is moved two points diagonally, may not jump over intervening pieces and may not cross the river.

A mammal of the order Proboscidia and family Elephantidae, of which two living species, Elephas maximus (formerly Elephas Indicus) and Loxodonta Africana (formerly E. Africanus), and several fossil species, are known. They have five toes, a long proboscis or trunk, and two large ivory tusks proceeding from the extremity of the upper jaw, and curving upwards. The molar teeth are large and have transverse folds. Elephants are the largest land animals now existing. The elephant is classed as a pachyderm.

Ivory; the tusk of the elephant.

Five-toed pachyderm

The symbol of the Republican Party; introduced in cartoons by Thomas Nast in 1874