elephant calf

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• The Elephant Calf — ( Das Elefantenkalb ), also known as The Baby Elephant , is an early one act surrealistic prose farce written by the German modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht. It originally formed the penultimate scene of Brecht s full length play Man Equals… …   Wikipedia

• Elephant — Taxobox name = Elephant image width = 250px image caption = An African Bush Elephant near the border of the Serengeti and Ngorongoro Conservation Area in Tanzania. regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata subphylum = Vertebrata classis = Mammalia ordo …   Wikipedia

• Calf — Calf, n.; pl. {Calves}. [OE. calf, kelf, AS. cealf; akin to D. kalf, G. kalb, Icel. k[=a]lfr, Sw. kalf, Dan. kalv, Goth. kalb[=o]; cf. Skr. garbha fetus, young, Gr. ?????, Skr grabh to seize, conceive, Ir. colpa, colpach, a calf. [root]222.] 1.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Calf's-foot jelly — Calf Calf, n.; pl. {Calves}. [OE. calf, kelf, AS. cealf; akin to D. kalf, G. kalb, Icel. k[=a]lfr, Sw. kalf, Dan. kalv, Goth. kalb[=o]; cf. Skr. garbha fetus, young, Gr. ?????, Skr grabh to seize, conceive, Ir. colpa, colpach, a calf. [root]222.] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• calf — [ka:f US kæf] n plural calves [ka:vz US kævz] [Sense: 1; Date: 1300 1400; : Old Norse; Origin: kalfi] [Sense: 2 3; Origin: Old English cealf] 1.) the part of the back of your leg between your knee and your ↑ankle …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• calf — calf1 [kaf, käf] n. pl. calves or, esp. for 4, calfs [ME < OE cealf & ON kalfr < IE * geleb(h) < base * gel , to swell, form a ball (hence swelling, fetus, offspring) > CLUB, L globus] 1. a young cow or bull 2. the young of some other …   English World dictionary

• calf — [ kæf ] (plural calves [ kævz ] ) noun count * 1. ) a young cow. Its meat is called veal. a ) a young animal such as a young elephant, WHALE, or GIRAFFE 2. ) the thick back part of your leg between your knee and your ANKLE …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• Elephant intelligence — Elephants are among the world s most intelligent animals. With a mass just over 5kg, elephant brains are larger than those of any other land animal, and although the largest whales have body masses twentyfold those of a typical elephant, whale… …   Wikipedia

• elephant — n. 1) a rogue ( wild ) elephant 2) elephants trumpet 3) a herd of elephants 4) a young elephant is a calf 5) a female elephant is a cow 6) a male elephant is a bull * * * [ elɪfənt] a female elephant is a cow a herd of elephants a male elephant… …   Combinatory dictionary

• calf — calf1 calfless, adj. calflike, adj. /kaf, kahf/, n., pl. calves /kavz, kahvz/. 1. the young of the domestic cow or other bovine animal. 2. the young of certain other mammals, as the elephant, seal, and whale. 3. calfskin leather. 4. Informal. an… …   Universalium

• calf — noun plural calves, (C) 1 the part of the back of your leg between your knee and your ankle 2 the baby of a cow, or of some other large animals such as the elephant 3 be in calf if a cow is in calf, it is going to have a baby see also: kill the… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English