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oliphants

oliphants is the plural of oliphant.

Meaning of oliphant

Noun

oliphant (plural oliphants)

  1. (archaic, historical) An elephant.
    • She [Diana] hath ſent (to plague vs) a huge ſauadge Boare,
      Of an vn-meaſured height and magnitude.
      […]
      His briſtles poynted like a range of pikes
      Ranck't on his backe: his foame ſnowes where he feeds
      His tuskes are like the Indian Oliphants.1613, Thomas Heywood, The Brazen Age, […], London: […] Nicholas Okes, […], →OCLC, Act II, signature [C4], verso
  2. An ancient ivory hunting-horn.

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Questions about oliphants

What is oliphants the plural of?
Oliphants is the plural of oliphant.

Words near oliphants in the dictionary

  1. oliodendroglioma
  2. oliogonucleotide
  3. olios
  4. oliphant
  5. Oliphantian
  6. oliphants
  7. oliphaunt
  8. oliphaunts
  9. olisboi
  10. olisbos
  11. olisboses

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