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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An East Indian name for a tuskless elephant; strictly speaking, a tuskless male elephant, since the female Indian elephants seldom develop tusks.

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  • ~ a naturally tuskless male elephant

    ~ spurless cock

    January 18, 2009

  • Muckna, or Makhna in Hindu, which comes from the Sanskrit matkuna, 'a bug, flea, a beardless man, an elephant without tusks'.

    c. 1780 - "An elephant born with left tooth only is reckoned sacred; with black spots in the mouth unlucky, and not saleable; the mukna or elephant born without teeth is thought the best."Shakespeare uses the the word as 'a cock without spurs.'

    January 18, 2009

  • Also makhna, which see.

    October 31, 2011