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.
- 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.
- In the early 20th century, the remains of a mammoth was found in the vicinity.
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