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war elephant

war elephant noun: any elephant trained and guided by humans for combat.

Noun

war elephant (plural war elephants)

  1. (historical) Any elephant trained and guided by humans for combat.
    • During the Second Punic War, 218-201 BCE, Hannibal trekked 37 war elephants across the Alps from what is now Spain into Italy.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 273

war elephant meaning in Sanskrit

war elephant in Sanskrit

a war elephant, Indra's elephant
करीन्द्र karīndra

Forms of war elephant

pluralwar elephants

Questions about war elephant

What does war elephant mean?
War elephant means any elephant trained and guided by humans for combat.
What is war elephant in Sanskrit?
War elephant in Sanskrit is करीन्द्र (karīndra). See War elephant meaning in Sanskrit.
What part of speech is war elephant?
War elephant is a noun.
What is the plural of war elephant?
The plural of war elephant is war elephants.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: war elephant (page history and authors); करीन्द्र (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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