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Any of numerous extinct elephants widely distributed in the Pleistocene
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mammoth
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Comparable to a mammoth in its size; very large, huge, gigantic. n. Any species of the extinct genus ''Mammuthus'', of large, usually hairy, elephant-like mammals with long curved tusks and an inclined back, which became extinct with the last retreat ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1706, from Russian mammot' , probably from Ostyak, a Finno-Ugric language of northern Russia (compare Finnish maa "earth"). Because the remains were dug from the earth, the animal was believed to root like a mole. As an adjective, "gigantic," from 1802; ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mammoth \Mam"moth\ (m[a^]m"m[o^]th), a. Resembling the mammoth in size; very large; gigantic; as, a mammoth ox.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ This country has a mammoth drug problem. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Absolutely mammoth , the book never bores. ▪ After the war, the engineers had to invent some mammoth excavation devices to shoehorn them out. ▪ Could ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A mammoth is any species of the extinct genus Mammuthus , proboscideans commonly equipped with long, curved tusks and, in northern species, a covering of long hair . They lived from the Pliocene epoch (from around 5 million years ago) into the Holocene ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. so exceedingly large or extensive as to suggest a giant or mammoth; "a gigantic redwood"; "gigantic disappointment"; "a mammoth ship"; "a mammoth multinational corporation" [syn: gigantic ]
Usage examples of mammoth.
With mammoth government contracts in the offing, Weinberg had no trouble converting the Business Advisory Council of leading businessmen into an agency for helping governmental leaders plan the policies for war and for the post-war period.
Everyone else seemed to find their way to the Mammoth Hearth, anticipating the story of an exciting and unusual adventure, which could be told and retold.
The mammoths gradually became more confident, their bellies filling, and the steady rhythms of life banished their lingering grief over the loss of Shoot.
Apparently, the giant ground sloth and the short-faced grizzly also dwelt in the forests and plains along with the humpless camel, the mammoth, and the mastodon.
It was a transformation that could not even have been imagined by any mammoth or mastodont who ever lived.
His most recent book is a collection, Vacuum Diagrams, and upcoming projects include new novels Moonseed and Mammoth, and a collaboration with Arthur C.
Long Light that she could reach the Mammoth People before the season of flies and mushy muskeg began.
Although a male mammoth reached puberty around twelve, he did not begin musth until he was close to thirty, and then only for a week or so.
Besides lending male mammoths irresistible charm, to females, musth also conferred dominance over males, making them very aggressive even toward those who were larger, unless they were also in that excited state.
The woolly mammoths were well adapted to the harsh periglacial climate of their cold environment.
The system was very busy with vessels going and coming, and mammoth chunks of preplanetary materials being pushed and pulled around by some sort of invisible motivating systems.
I am well acquainted with all these matters, and know, also, that Cuvier and Blumenbach fully recognized in these bones the undeniable remains of mammoths of the Quaternary period.
The sight of a quintet of shaggy-haired boys setting up mammoth speakers on the stage in preparation to assault our sensibilities was more than enough to send us away.
The lashing and lines were made from tough sealskin, and the reins that would control the bonehead haulers were made of mammoth leather.
Obviously he thought that Soli was telling me about the mammoth feast.