| 单词 | savannah elephant |
| 释义 | > as lemmassavannah elephant savannah elephant n. an African elephant of the larger subspecies Loxodonta africana africana, characteristic of savannah grasslands; also called bush elephant, plains elephant.Now often treated as a full species: see African elephant n. at African n. and adj. Compounds 2b. ΚΠ 1940 Nigerian Field 9 7 The African Plains or Savannah Elephant appears to spend much of its time digging with its tusks. 1966 Jrnl. Wildlife Managem. 30 377/2 The weight..and the height at shoulder..were similar to the measurements of an 8.5-year female savanna elephant in the Zoological Gardens at Basel. 1991 P. Matthiessen Afr. Silences iii. 98 Poaching gangs reduced the savanna or bush elephant, Loxodonta africana africana, to less than a half million animals. 2010 New Yorker 5 Apr. 44/3 In the late nineteen-seventies and early eighties, there was a spike in the killing of Africa's savanna elephants. < as lemmas |
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