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[ UK /mˈæməθ/ ]
[ UK /mˈæməθ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
so exceedingly large or extensive as to suggest a giant or mammoth
a mammoth ship
a mammoth multinational corporation
a gigantic redwood
gigantic disappointment
NOUN
- any of numerous extinct elephants widely distributed in the Pleistocene; extremely large with hairy coats and long upcurved tusks
How To Use mammoth In A Sentence
- Of course, getting all this infrastructure right is a mammoth undertaking in debt-ridden times. Times, Sunday Times
- Over 120 pieces of flint waste show that Neanderthals had made butchery tools on site to carve up the mammoths.
- One mammoth cloud lay half-way across the sky, a big fleecy blanket, dragging its train. DANSVILLE
- The latest research on mammoth tusks shows that young male mammoths were being forced out of family groups much earlier than normal.
- The amounts of seed required per acre for the different kinds are about as follows: mammoth fifteen to twenty pounds; red (medium) twelve to fifteen pounds; crimson twelve to fifteen pounds; and alsike ten to twelve pounds. Apple Growing
- We'll just take our furry piñata and go," Frank told the mammoth," if you don't mind. ICE AGE
- The sudden reappearance of his father, coupled with his mother's mammoth success, proves to be too much.
- All the fascinating stories about the bones of dinosaurs, chalicotheres, dinotheres, mastodons, giant giraffes, and mammoths are gathered in my book.
- All men are prone to believe in such marvels; and it is quite possible, as Niebuhr supposes, that some discoveries of the remains of mammoths and other monstrous forms embedded in the crust of the earth, may have given definiteness and prominency to the Chaldaean notions on this subject. The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 1. (of 7): Chaldaea The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.
- A cousin of mink, martens, otters, stoats, weasels and distantly related to seals, badgers are one of our oldest indigenous animals, whose fossil remains have been found to belong to the same era as mammoths.