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imperial elephant - largest known mammoth; of America

Archidiskidon imperator, imperial mammoth

mammoth - any of numerous extinct elephants widely distributed in the Pleistocene; extremely large with hairy coats and long upcurved tusks

Archidiskidon, genus Archidiskidon - a genus of Elephantidae

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In the center of the troops following the imperial elephant marched a great caravan of slaves.

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The seductive violence of the imperial elephant, bound tightly to the localism of the wakes, thus enacts at the diegetic level the toppling of convention that Virginia Woolf was later to register as the sound of modernism's "smashing and crashing," and that in six short years Wyndham Lewis would seek to effect by "blasting" the mid-Victorian menagerie itself.

Elephants in the Labyrinth of Empire: Modernism and the Menagerie in The Old Wives' Tale

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