Elephant Apple
a tree that grows in India. It is of the orange tribe, and is large and handsome, with pinnate leaves and a large gray fruit with a very hard rind. phant hawk-moth is one of the smallest species of the genus, being usually but 20 lines long.
ELEPHANTIASIS (-ti'a-sis), a cutaneous disease, especially prevalent in Egypt. It is so called from its likeness to an elephant's hide.
ELEPHANTINE (-tīnē), a small island of Egypt, in the Nile, opposite Assuan. It is covered with ruins piled on each other-Egyptian, Roman, Saracen, and Arabic, the most important being a gateway of the time of Alexander, a small temple dedicated to Khnum and founded by Amenophis II., and the ancient Nilometer mentioned by Strabo. The island gave the 5th dynasty to Egypt.