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Anonymous

9y ago
Updated: 4/3/2022

No, the word 'African' is a proper adjectivedescribing the noun elephant.

The term 'African elephant' is a complex compound noun, a compound noun made up to two or more parts of speech (adjective+noun = complex compound noun).

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