elephant vs emblem

elephant and emblem both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
elephant	Yes	No	No	No
emblem	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, emblem is a hypernym of elephant; that is, emblem is a word with a broader meaning than elephant:

elephant: the symbol of the Republican Party; introduced in cartoons by Thomas Nast in 1874
emblem: a visible symbol representing an abstract idea

Other hypernyms of elephant include allegory.

elephant (noun)	emblem (noun)
five-toed pachyderm	special design or visual object representing a quality, type, group, etc.
the symbol of the Republican Party; introduced in cartoons by Thomas Nast in 1874	a visible symbol representing an abstract idea