bush elephant

noun

: savanna elephant

Weighing as much as 14 tons and standing up to 13 feet high, the African bush elephant is the largest land mammal.

—Holly Prestidge, Richmond (Virginia) Times Dispatch, 5 May 2013

Word History

First Known Use

1922, in the meaning defined above

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