"Indian elephant" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: Indian elephants [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} Indian elephant (plural Indian elephants)
  1. A subspecies of the Asian elephant, Elephas maximus indicus, distributed across India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, Thailand, the Malay Peninsula, Laos, southern China, Cambodia, Vietnam, and formerly Pakistan. Categories (lifeform): Elephants Translations (Elephas maximus): intiannorsu (Finnish), elefant indian [masculine] (Romanian), elefant asiatic [masculine] (Romanian), инди́йский слон (indíjskij slon) [masculine] (Russian)

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