Asian elephant
noun
an elephant having smaller ears, one projection on the trunk, and tusks primarily in the male; indian elephant
examples
asian elephants are smaller than african elephants.
word origin
1818
Read Also:
- Asian influenza
a form of epidemic influenza caused by a virus believed to have been carried from asia in the late 1950s. noun a type of influenza recurring in worldwide epidemics, caused by a virus (a2 strain or subsequent antigenic variants), which apparently originated in china in 1957 noun see asian flu noun a virulent type of […]
- Asian semi-longhair
noun another name for tiffanie
- Asian shorthair
noun a generic term for a group of breeds of short-haired cat of burmese type, including the bombay
- Asian tiger mosquito
a mosquito, aedes albopictus, native to asia, that transmits yellow fever and dengue and possibly west nile virus. compare .
- Ashrm
ashrm american society for healthcare risk management