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Anytime you hear the word "jumbo" or hear something like "jumbo-sized," it is coined from the name of this elephant. Jumbo was a famous African elephant exhibited in the 19th century.
His enormous size (reaching about 12–13 feet tall and over 6 tons) captivated the public, and his name quickly entered the language as a term for anything unusually large.
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