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elpend, m.n: elephant. (EL-pend / ˈɛl-pɛnd)

A fairly realistic medieval drawing of the front of an elephant in profile; another trunk in a different position is sketched in the background.
Matthew Paris’s Liber Additamentorum; England, 1250-59; British Library, Cotton MS Nero D I, f. 169v. [bl.uk]

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