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Elephas herbarius

Elephas herbarius, the grass elephant, a lost statue of an elephant in Regio VIII of ancient Rome near the Forum Holitorium, known only from the Regionary Catalogues and medieval toponyms such as ad Alafantum.

Elephunk

Elephunk is the third studio album by the Black Eyed Peas, released in 2003. It was their breakthrough, featuring Fergie and the hit "Where Is the Love?".

eleQtron

eleQtron is a German trapped-ion quantum computing startup founded in 2020 as a spin-off of the University of Siegen's Department of Quantum Optics, developing quantum processors using its MAGIC microwave-control technology.

Elering

Elering is the Estonian electricity and gas transmission system operator, founded in 2010 through separation from Eesti Energia, and led Estonia's 2025 power grid synchronization with Continental Europe.

ELES

ELES, fully owned by the Republic of Slovenia, is the country's electricity transmission system operator. Founded in 1990 and based in Ljubljana, it operates the 110, 220, and 400 kV network.

Élet és Irodalom

Élet és Irodalom ("Life and Literature") is a Hungarian literary and political weekly published in Budapest since 1957, recognized as one of Hungary's oldest weekly newspapers.

Eletriptan

Eletriptan (Relpax) is an oral 5-HT1B/1D triptan for acute migraine in adults, US-approved 2002, dosed 20-40 mg (max 80 mg/day), CYP3A4-metabolized, ranked most effective triptan, added to WHO EML 2025.

Eletrobrás

Eletrobrás, now AXIA Energia, is Brazil's largest electricity generation company, a federal state holding from 1962 until its 2022 privatization left it widely held with no controlling shareholder.

Eletronorte

Eletronorte (Centrais Elétricas do Norte do Brasil) is a Brazilian electricity generation and transmission company, created by the federal government in 1973 to develop the Amazon region's power systems.

Eletronuclear

Eletronuclear, formally Eletrobrás Termonuclear S.A., is the Brazilian mixed-capital company that operates the Angra 1 and Angra 2 nuclear plants at Angra dos Reis, created in 1997.

Eletropaulo

Eletropaulo Metropolitana Eletricidade de São Paulo S.A. was a Brazilian electricity distributor serving greater São Paulo, created in 1981, privatized in 1998, and acquired by Enel in 2018.

Elettaria

Elettaria, true cardamom genus (Elettaria cardamomum, green or true cardamom), a small Zingiberaceae genus native to India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, and Indonesia; only E. cardamomum is true cardamom, other cardamom-named species are false cardamoms.

Elettra (synchrotron)

Elettra is a third-generation synchrotron light source in Basovizza, near Trieste, Italy, operating since 1993 at two electron energies and serving more than 1,200 visiting scientists a year.

Elettra Lamborghini

Elettra Lamborghini (Elettra Miura Lamborghini, born 1994, Bologna), granddaughter of Automobili Lamborghini founder Ferruccio, is an Italian pop-reggaeton singer and TV personality; albums Twerking Queen and Elettraton, 2.5 billion streams, married DJ Afrojack.

Elettra Rossellini Wiedemann

Elettra Rossellini Wiedemann, also Elettra Wiedemann, born 1983 in New York, is an American model, food writer, and Mama Farm director; daughter of Isabella Rossellini, Lancôme spokesmodel from 2006, LSE biomedicine master's, founder of One Frickin Day.

Eleusa

Eleusa, Greek for "merciful," is a Byzantine iconographic type of the Virgin and Child in tender embrace, known from the Vladimir Mother of God of about 1130.

Eleusine

Eleusine is a genus of about ten grass species in the family Poaceae, first published in 1788, that includes finger millet and the weed goosegrass.

Eleusine indica

Eleusine indica (goosegrass, wiregrass) is a diploid C4 annual grass of Poaceae, a pantropical weed of crops and a close wild relative of finger millet, notorious for evolving resistance to many herbicide modes of action.

Eleusinian Mysteries

Eleusinian Mysteries (Ἐλευσίνια Μυστήρια), annual secret initiation rites for Demeter and Persephone at Eleusis near Athens; rooted in the Mycenaean era, open to nearly all Greek speakers, promising a blessed afterlife; ended by Theodosius I in 392 CE.

Eleusis

Eleusis is Robert Abbott's 1956 induction card game for 4-8 players, published by Martin Gardner in 1959 and revised as New Eleusis in 1977; one player secretly invents a rule and the others deduce it, simulating the scientific method.

Eleuthera

Eleuthera, a 160-km-long thin Bahamian island 58 miles east of Nassau, settled in 1648 by the Eleutheran Adventurers, once a pineapple exporter, now a tourism destination with Harbour Island nearby.

EleutherAI

EleutherAI is a non-profit AI research collective founded in July 2020 by Connor Leahy, Sid Black, and Leo Gao, which released GPT-Neo, GPT-J, GPT-NeoX-20B, and The Pile dataset.

Eleutherius

Eleutherius was Bishop of Rome, in Catholic reckoning a pope, leading the Roman church for about fifteen years in the late second century under Marcus Aurelius and Commodus.

Eleutherna

Eleutherna (Ελεύθερνα) was an ancient city in west-central Crete, about 25 kilometers from Rethymnon on Mount Ida's slopes, occupied into the Byzantine era and excavated by the University of Crete since 1985.

Eleutherna Bridge

Hellenistic corbel arch bridge at ancient Eleutherna (Ελεύθερνα), Crete, near Rethymno; limestone dry masonry, about 9 m long, 3.85 m span, damaged in 1883, preserved nearly complete.

Eleutherococcus

Eleutherococcus (Siberian ginseng, eleuthero, Acanthopanax) is an Araliaceae genus of about 29 thorny Asian shrub species; E. senticosus root is an EU traditional herbal medicine for asthenia and a Soviet-era adaptogen.

Eleutherococcus senticosus

Eleutherococcus senticosus, also known as Siberian ginseng or eleuthero, is a spiny shrub of the ginseng family native to the Russian Far East, China, Korea, and Japan.

Eleutherodactylus

Eleutherodactylus (robber frogs, rainfrogs, coquis) is a genus of 211 direct-developing frog species in Eleutherodactylidae, native to the West Indies, Texas, and Middle America, with E. planirostris introduced worldwide.

Eleutheronema tetradactylum

Eleutheronema tetradactylum, the fourfinger threadfin or Indian salmon, is an Indo-West Pacific polynemid fish with four pectoral filaments, protandrous hermaphroditism, high commercial value in fisheries and aquaculture, and a 2025 near-telomere-to-telomere genome assembly.

Elevance Health

Elevance Health, formerly known as Anthem until 2022, is an American health insurance company operating Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans in 14 states under the Anthem brand.