Definition of Loxodonta africana

1. Noun. An elephant native to Africa having enormous flapping ears and ivory tusks.

Exact synonyms: African Elephant
Generic synonyms: Elephant
Group relationships: Genus Loxodonta, Loxodonta

Lexicographical Neighbors of Loxodonta Africana

Lower Silesian
Lower Sorbian
Lower Wendish
Lowestoft
Lowland Scots
Lowlander
Lowlands
Lowlands of Scotland
Lowry
Lowsley tractor
Loxia curvirostra
Loxitane
Loxodonta
Loxodonta africana (current term)
Loxoma
Loxomataceae
Loxosceles
Loxostege
Loxostege similalis
Loxotrema ovatum
Loya Jirga
Loyalist Volunteer Force
Loyang
Loyola
Lozal
Lozier
Lozère
Lr

Literary usage of Loxodonta africana

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Organic Evolution by Richard Swann Lull (1917)
"Embryonic elephant, Loxodonta africana 586 194. ... Molar tooth patterns of African elephant, Loxodonta africana, and Asiatic elephant, Elephas indicus ..."

2. Fossil Elephantoids: from the Hominid-Bearing Awash Group, Middle Awash by Jon Kalb (2007)
"... enamel loops on worn plates of Elephas, and oblique-sided ("lox" in Greek) or lozenge-shaped enamel loops in Loxodonta africana (Osborn, 1942, 1174). ..."

3. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1868)
"Recently there died in London a young female African Elephant, Loxodonta africana ; in the stomach of this animal Dr. Mûrie, who dissected it, ..."

4. Modern Abyssinia by Augustus Blandy Wylde (1901)
"... and the northern Danakil country being the ANT (Loxodonta africana). Still found but in always diminishing .ices where it is most numerous in the north, ..."

5. Through the Kalahari Desert: A Narrative of a Journey with Gun, Camera, and by William Hunt, G. Antonio Farini (1886)
"ELEPHANT (Loxodonta africana). This huge pachyderm is being rapidly driven out of South Africa, although the Government have reserved parks for its ..."

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