El·e·phan·tine a. Pertaining to the elephant, or resembling an elephant (commonly, in size); hence, huge; immense; heavy; as, of elephantine proportions; an elephantine step or tread.
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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