"elephantesque" meaning in English

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          "text": "The teal faced being had a wicked looking spider’s mouth and wide elephantesque ears.",
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          "text": "The most significant symptoms are noticeable on the man’s hands and feet; the patient has lost his fingers and toes and shortening the digits has left him with characteristic elephantesque stumps.",
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          "ref": "2015, C. R. Bryan, Pentacles Five: The Six Inversions of Purpose, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN:",
          "text": "He grinned at the thought that he looked like the ghost of a clown, in the spectral, lingering glow of a few stars and a little bit of moon not yet overwhelmed by the parade of elephantesque clouds.",
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          "ref": "2018, Tui T. Sutherland, The Lost Continent (Wings of Fire), Scholastic Press, →ISBN:",
          "text": "He struck an odd, dramatic pose, which Blue guessed was supposed to look elephantesque.",
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          "text": "He is repugnant (stout, bald, elephantesque), and an ungrateful foreigner.",
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      "word": "elephantic"
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