straight-tusked elephant

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straight-tusked elephant (plural straight-tusked elephants)

  1. An elephant of extinct species †Palaeoloxodon antiquus, that lived across Europe and western Asia during the Pleistocene.
    • 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 192:
      Europe's straight-tusked elephants probably had a herd structure similar to that of other elephants, in which females and young live in small groups, while the larger males were either solitary or congregated in bachelor herds.