Advertisement
Advertisement
mammoth
[ mam-uhth ]
noun
- any large, elephantlike mammal of the extinct genus Mammuthus, from the Pleistocene Epoch, having hairy skin and ridged molar teeth.
adjective
- immensely large; huge; enormous:
a mammoth organization.
mammoth
/ ˈæəθ /
noun
- any large extinct elephant of the Pleistocene genus Mammuthus (or Elephas ), such as M. primigenius ( woolly mammoth ), having a hairy coat and long curved tusks
adjective
- of gigantic size or importance
mammoth
- Any of various extinct elephants of the genus Mammuthus, having long, upwardly curving tusks and thick hair. Mammoths grew to great size and lived throughout the Northern Hemisphere during the Ice Age.
Word History and Origins
Origin of mammoth1
Word History and Origins
Origin of mammoth1
Compare Meanings
How does mammoth compare to similar and commonly confused words? Explore the most common comparisons:
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
"There are inefficiencies about the way we deliver things. This is a mammoth university with 22 schools and lots of duplication. We're very good at adding new things, not at taking things away," he said.
The company’s other de-extinction hopes include reviving the woolly mammoth, the dodo, and the thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger.
It has publicised its efforts to use similar cutting edge genetic techniques to bring back extinct animals including the woolly mammoth and the Tasmanian tiger.
It was a day to forget for Worcestershire, who toiled in the sun and now face a mammoth task if they are to save the game over the course of the next two days.
It helped the Trump team make up for Kamala Harris’s mammoth financial advantage and narrow its dollars and focus on the roughly 14 percent of battleground-state voters it had identified as swayable.
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Browse