英语词汇“mammoth”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

mammoth

/ˈmaməθ

noun

A large extinct elephant of the Pleistocene epoch, typically hairy with a sloping back and long curved tusks.

Genus Mammuthus, family Elephantidae: several species. See woolly mammoth.

Woolly mammoths, which are now extinct, lived from the Pleistocene to the early Holocene period from about 120,000 to 4,000 years ago....

The back cover claims it presents the wonderful story of the elephant, from the extinct mammoths of the Ice Age to their present day battle for survival.
In this scenario, humans moved rapidly through the continent, slaughtering mammoths, mastodons and other large prey as they went.

adjective

Huge: a mammoth corporation...

Like any mammoth task, it can be difficult to get started.
Otherwise Zambia needs a pat on the back for embarking on this mammoth task of fighting corruption.
As long as it's not a multicolored, mammoth hat with a humongous pom-pom attached to it.

Synonyms

huge, enormous, gigantic, giant, colossal, massive, vast, immense, mighty, stupendous, monumental, Herculean, epic, prodigious, mountainous, monstrous, titanic, towering, elephantine, king-sized, king-size, gargantuan, Brobdingnagian

informal mega, monster, whopping great, thumping, thumping great, humongous, jumbo, bumper, astronomical, astronomic

British informal whacking, whacking great, ginormous

Origin

Early 18th century: from Russian mamo(n)t, probably of Siberian origin.

In Siberia people used to dig up fossil remains and frozen carcasses of a large elephant-like hairy mammal with long curved tusks. They called this in Russian the mamont, which probably came from a Siberian word meaning ‘earth horn’. In the early 18th century English acquired this as mammoth. The word began to refer to anything of a huge size in the early 19th century. See also colossal

单词	mammoth
释义	mammoth /ˈmaməθ / noun A large extinct elephant of the Pleistocene epoch, typically hairy with a sloping back and long curved tusks. Genus Mammuthus, family Elephantidae: several species. See woolly mammoth. Woolly mammoths, which are now extinct, lived from the Pleistocene to the early Holocene period from about 120,000 to 4,000 years ago.... The back cover claims it presents the wonderful story of the elephant, from the extinct mammoths of the Ice Age to their present day battle for survival. In this scenario, humans moved rapidly through the continent, slaughtering mammoths, mastodons and other large prey as they went. adjective Huge: a mammoth corporation... Like any mammoth task, it can be difficult to get started. Otherwise Zambia needs a pat on the back for embarking on this mammoth task of fighting corruption. As long as it's not a multicolored, mammoth hat with a humongous pom-pom attached to it. Synonyms huge, enormous, gigantic, giant, colossal, massive, vast, immense, mighty, stupendous, monumental, Herculean, epic, prodigious, mountainous, monstrous, titanic, towering, elephantine, king-sized, king-size, gargantuan, Brobdingnagian informal mega, monster, whopping great, thumping, thumping great, humongous, jumbo, bumper, astronomical, astronomic British informal whacking, whacking great, ginormous Origin Early 18th century: from Russian mamo(n)t, probably of Siberian origin. In Siberia people used to dig up fossil remains and frozen carcasses of a large elephant-like hairy mammal with long curved tusks. They called this in Russian the mamont, which probably came from a Siberian word meaning ‘earth horn’. In the early 18th century English acquired this as mammoth. The word began to refer to anything of a huge size in the early 19th century. See also colossal
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