| Chryselephantine | a. [ Gr. chryso`s gold + &unr_; made of ivory, fr. &unr_; ivory, elephant. ] Composed of, or adorned with, gold and ivory. [ 1913 Webster ] ☞ The chryselephantine statues of the Greeks were built up with inferior materials, veneered, as it were, with ivory for the flesh, and gold decorated with color for the hair and garments. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Elephantine | a. [ L. elephantinus of ivory, Gr. &unr_;: cf. F. éléphantin. ] Pertaining to the elephant, or resembling an elephant (commonly, in size); hence, huge; immense; heavy; as, of elephantine proportions; an elephantine step or tread. [ 1913 Webster ]
Elephantine epoch (Geol.), the epoch distinguished by the existence of large pachyderms. Mantell. --
Elephantine tortoise (Zoöl.), a huge land tortoise; esp., Testudo elephantina, from islands in the Indian Ocean; and T. elephantopus, from the Galapagos Islands.
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