mammoth
IPA: mˈæmʌθ
noun
- 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 of ice age glaciers during the late Pleistocene period, and are known from fossils, frozen carcasses, and Paleolithic cave paintings found in North America and Eurasia.
- (obsolete) A mastodon.
- (figuratively) Something very large of its kind.
adjective
- Comparable to a mammoth in its size; very large, huge, gigantic.
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Examples of "mammoth" in Sentences
- Mammoths have tusks as well as elephants.
- The state fossil is the Columbian mammoth.
- The woolly mammoth is common in the fossil record.
- He was opposed to the retirement of the Mammoth Mk.
- The woolly mammoth was the last species of the genus.
- The Mammoth is still presumably imprisoned in the ARC.
- We hunted large game; a mammoth is a risky proposition.
- A fossil of a mammoth was found in the middle of the park.
- The little mammoth humorly advices the consequences of vices.
- The latter is exemplified by the extinction of the woolly mammoth.
- He was the KEWLEST. also: the word mammoth always makes me snicker.
- The woolly mammoth is the ideal choice for the “new” republican party.
- In the early 20th century, the remains of a mammoth was found in the vicinity.
- All that stands between the world and a living, breathing wooly mammoth is $10M.
- And suddenly the term mammoth, no longer just referring to an animal, meant anything big.
- Link many people assume the hairy mammoth is extinct, but there could be one out behind your garage.
- "We have the oldest model that he has in his collection, a woolly mammoth from the '40s, when he was just doing it in a shop in his garage," she says.
- The name mammoth, which is probably of Tartar origin, Witsen appears to wish to derive from Behemoth, spoken of in the fortieth chapter of the Book of Job.
- They were his picture books, and he could take one in hand, perhaps a sketch of the great hairy elephant which we call the mammoth, and show it around the circle and then tell the story of that hunt.