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oliphaunts

oliphaunts is the plural of oliphaunt.

Meaning of oliphaunt

Noun

oliphaunt (plural oliphaunts)

  1. (archaic, historical) elephant
    • The gander, the gose, and the hudge oliphaunt, / Went with the pecok ageyne the fesaunt;1523, John Skelton, “A ryght delectable treatyse upon a goodly garlande or chapelet of laurell”, in Poetical Works of John Skelton, published 1853, page 365

Questions about oliphaunts

What is oliphaunts the plural of?
Oliphaunts is the plural of oliphaunt.

Words near oliphaunts in the dictionary

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

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