Word: elephantic
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Around the entire perimeter of Angola's breezy seaport capital of Luanda ran an illuminated wire fence. Portuguese patrols checked every car entering and leaving the city. To the north, near the Congolese border, Portuguese army units beat through the 12-ft.-high elephant grass, warily on the watch...
Elephant ear. Thick metal plate that reinforces a missile's skin.
Hunters have tackled the elephant, never a job for clowns.
Miss Cynthia Irwin, a Harvard graduate student, discovered the remains of a mastodon, an extinct elephant-like animal, together with scrapers and other human tools dating back some 30,000 years. Excited by the discovery, a number of U.S. archaeologists and paleontologists have left for El Horno - a site about...
The modern elephant, while belonging to the same animal family as the mastodon, more closely resembles the larger mammoth, another long-nosed species scientists have known for some time that early man hunted the mammoth; but similar evidence for the mastodon was lacking until the joint Peabody Museum and University...