elephant legs

Massive gray supports

Elephant legs describes legs that are thick, heavy, or column-like, resembling an elephant's.

The term appears in furniture design for sturdy turned legs and in fashion criticism for unflattering wide-leg pants.

Medically, it sometimes describes the swelling of lymphedema.

As casual description, it's usually unflattering: Those jeans give me elephant legs.

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herbivore · femur · limbs · tibia · fibula · toes · sturdy · structural integrity · quadruped · cartilage · weight-bearing · tendons · joint support · load bearing · columnar · thick-skinned · bone density · zoo

Opposites
leg thickness/shape

elephant legsbird legs

Fowl's lower extremities

chicken legs · twigs · spindly legs · tapered legs

Family

elephant, legs, elephants, elephantine, leg, legged, leggy, legging, leggings

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G