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单词 mammoth
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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024
mam•moth /ˈmæməθ/USA pronunciation   n. [countable]
  1. Paleontologyan extinct elephant with long hair and tusks.

adj. [often: before a noun]
  1. very large;
    enormous:a mammoth budget.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
mam•moth  (mam′əth),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. Paleontologyany large, elephantlike mammal of the extinct genus Mammuthus, from the Pleistocene Epoch, having hairy skin and ridged molar teeth.

adj. 
  1. immensely large;
    huge;
    enormous:a mammoth organization.
  • Russian mam(m)ot (now mámont), first used in reference to remains of the animal found in Siberia; origin, originally uncertain
  • 1690–1700
    • 2.See corresponding entry in Unabridged See gigantic. 

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
mammoth /ˈmæməθ/ n
  1. 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
 adj
  1. of gigantic size or importance
Etymology: 18th Century: from Russian mamot, from Tatar mamont, perhaps from mamma earth, because of a belief that the animal made burrows
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