Definition of "elephas" []

• The typical genus of elephants, formerly embracing both the living species, or genera, now sometimes restricted to the type represented by the Asiatic elephant, Elephas indicus. In this restricted sense it is the same as Elasmodon and Euelephas. See cuts under elephant. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "The smallest, cotinis texana, is 2 cm long, while the largest is a massive 20 cm long megasoma elephas."
• "Persian, which ignores short final vowels; “fil,” and, with the article, “Al-fil,” in Arabic, which supplies the place of p (an unknown letter to it), by f; and elephas in"
• "French scientists, even before it; and that, palæontologically speaking, man and {89} mammoth lived at the same time, and, according to a discovery made some thirty years ago at Denise in Middle France, probably even man and another older and defunct form of pachydermata, the elephas meridionalis, in North America man and the mastodon."