mammoth
11mammoth — [adj] huge behemothic, colossal, elephantine, enormous, gargantuan, giant, gigantic, high, immense, jumbo, large, leviathan, long, massive, mighty, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, prodigious, stupendous, titanic, vast; concept 773 Ant. little …
12mammoth — ► NOUN ▪ a large extinct form of elephant with a hairy coat and long curved tusks. ► ADJECTIVE ▪ huge; enormous. ORIGIN Russian …
13mammoth — ☆ mammoth [mam′əth] n. [altered < Russ mamont, mammot < Yakut mamont, prob. < mama, earth: from the notion that the animal had burrowed in the ground] any of a genus (Mammuthus) of extinct elephants with a hairy skin and long tusks… …
14Mammoth — For other uses, see Mammoth (disambiguation). Life Mammoth Temporal range: Early Pliocene to Middle Holocene …
15mammoth — /mam euhth/, n. 1. any large, elephantlike mammal of the extinct genus Mammuthus, from the Pleistocene Epoch, having hairy skin and ridged molar teeth. adj. 2. immensely large; huge; enormous: a mammoth organization. [1690 1700; < Russ mam(m)ot… …
16mammoth — [[t]mæ̱məθ[/t]] mammoths 1) ADJ GRADED: usu ADJ n (emphasis) You can use mammoth to emphasize that a task or change is very large and needs a lot of effort to achieve. ...the mammoth task of relocating the library... You can only undertake… …
17Mammoth — Cette page d’homonymie répertorie les différents sujets et articles partageant un même nom. Mammoth, super vilain de l univers DC Comics ; Mammoth, film de 2006 réalisé par Tim Cox ; Mammoth, film de 2009 réalisé par Lukas… …
18mammoth — /ˈmæməθ / (say mamuhth) noun 1. a large, extinct species of elephant, Mammuthus primigenius, the northern woolly mammoth, which resembled the present Indian elephant but had a hairy coat and long, curved tusks. 2. any of various related extinct… …
19mammoth — mam|moth1 [ˈmæməθ] adj [only before noun] extremely large = ↑enormous, gigantic ↑gigantic ▪ Reforming the prison system would be a mammoth task. ▪ a mammoth corporation mammoth 2 mammoth2 n [Date: 1700 1800; : Russian; Origin: m …
20mammoth — I UK [ˈmæməθ] / US adjective very large a mammoth task II UK [ˈmæməθ] / US noun [countable] Word forms mammoth : singular mammoth plural mammoths an animal similar to an elephant with long hair that lived a very long time ago …
