"jumbo : Especially large or powerful. The African elephant Jumbo purchased by American showman P...."

“jumbo : Especially large or powerful.
The African elephant Jumbo purchased by American showman P. T. Barnum for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus died on this day in 1885 after tripping on train tracks and impaling himself on a tusk.”

- https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/jumbo#English

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