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RELATED WORDS : african elephant american white birch american white oak american white pine andrew d. white andrew dickson white arizona white oak atlantic white cedar bacillary white diarrhea bacillary white diarrhoea black and white bleed white box white oak california white fir california white oak chinese white cabbage coast white cedar common white dogwood e. b. white eastern white pine edward d. white edward douglas white jr. edward white egg white elephant elephant bird elephant ear elephant seal elephant tree elephant yam elwyn brooks white european white birch european white lily flat-topped white aster great white heron great white hope great white shark great white way imperial elephant indian elephant large white large white petunia lowland white fir new zealand white pine northern white cedar old world white pelican oregon white oak pad elephant paper white patrick victor martindale white patrick white poor white poor white trash rogue elephant schwann's white substance sea elephant small white small white aster southern white cedar southwestern white pine stanford white swamp white oak sweet white violet t. h. white tall white violet theodore harold white upland white aster valley white oak water elephant west highland white terrier western white pine white white admiral white alder white anglo-saxon protestant white ant white arsenic white ash white aspen white avens white backlash white baneberry white basswood white bead white bean white bedstraw white beech white beer white birch white blood cell white blood corpuscle white book white bread white broom white bryony white burgundy white cake white camas white campion white cedar white cell white chocolate white cinnamon white cinnamon tree white clover white cockle white cohosh white corpuscle white crappie white croaker white currant white cypress white cypress pine white daisy white dead nettle white dipladenia white dog's-tooth violet white dogtooth violet white dwarf white dwarf star white elm white fairy lantern white false indigo white feather white feldspar white fir white flag white fly white fox white friar white fringed orchid white fringed orchis white fritillary white fungus white globe lily white gold white goods white heat white heather white hellebore white honeysuckle white hope white horehound white horse white horse nettle white hot white house white knight white lead white lead ore white leather white leg white lettuce white lie white lily white line white list white lotus white lung white lupine white madder white magic white maire white mallee white mallow white man white man's burden white mangrove white marlin white matsutake white matter white meat white melilot white metal white milkweed white mountain ash white mulberry white mullein white mullet white mustard white nile white noise white oak white onion sauce white out white pages white paper white pelican white people white pepper white perch white person white pine white pine blister rust white plague white popinac white poplar white potato white potato vine white pox white prairie aster white race white rhinoceros white rice white river white rocket white room white russia white russian white rust white sage white sale white sanicle white sauce white sea white separatism white separatist white shark white sheep white silk-cotton tree white slave white slaver white slavery white slaving white slime mushroom white snakeroot white snapdragon white spanish broom white spruce white squire white stork white stringybark white sturgeon white supremacist white supremacy white sweet clover white tai white tail white thistle white tie white tie and tails white titi white trash white trumpet lily white turnip white violet white vitriol white walnut white water white wax tree white whale white willow white wine white wolf white woman white wood aster white yam white zinnia woodland white violet yukon white birch zinc white

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun white elephant has 2 senses

• white elephant(n = noun.possession) Array - a valuable possession whose upkeep is excessively expensive; Array
is a kind of possession

• white elephant(n = noun.animal) Array - albinic Indian elephant; rare and sometimes venerated in east Asia; Array
is a kind of elephas maximus, indian elephant

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THESAURUS

white elephant

Christmas present, award, birthday present, box, burden, burthen, cadeau, cargo, charge, cross, cumbrance, deadweight, difficulty, disadvantage, embarrassment, encumbrance, fairing, freight, gift, hamper, handicap, handsel, impediment, impedimenta, imposition, inconvenience, load, lumber, oblation, offering, onus, pack, peace offering, penalty, present, presentation, tribute, trouble, weight

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Bane

N bane, curse, evil, hurtfulness, painfulness, scourge, damnosa hereditas, white elephant, sting, fang, thorn, tang, bramble, brier, nettle, poison, toxin, teratogen, leaven, virus venom, arsenic, antimony, tartar emetic, strychnine, nicotine, miasma, miasm, mephitis, malaria, azote, sewer gas, pest, Albany hemp, arsenious oxide, arsenious acid, bichloride of mercury, carbonic acid, carbonic gas, choke damp, corrosive sublimate, fire damp, hydrocyanic acid, cyanide, Prussic acid, hydrogen cyanide, marsh gas, nux vomica, ratsbane, hemlock, hellebore, nightshade, belladonna, henbane, aconite, banewort, bhang, ganja, hashish, Upas tree, Toxline (online), rust, worm, helminth, moth, moth and rust, fungus, mildew, dry rot, canker, cankerworm, cancer, torpedo, viper, demon, toxicology, baneful, poisonous, phr, bibere venenum in auro, Contingent Subservience.

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