| 单词 | mammoth |
| 释义 | mammoth (once / 1714 pages) nadj The adjective mammoth is a great way to describe something really, really big, like those huge woolly elephants they’re still finding in the melting glaciers. The word mammoth is a pretty new one, dating back only to around 1700. It was first only a noun from the Russian word mammot, meaning “earth,” and used to name the newly-discovered fossilized creature that was thought to have burrowed in the earth like a mole. The word, a rare Russian contribution to English, was not used as an adjective until around 1800—notably when President Thomas Jefferson used it to describe a very large cheese. WORD FAMILYmammoth: mammothly, mammoths USAGE EXAMPLESThursday for an area around Lake Tahoe stretching south to Mammoth Lakes, California. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) The mammoth technology industry confab, formerly the International Consumer Electronics Show, used to be centered on big-screen televisions, appliances and speakers. Seattle Times(Jan 01, 2017) There is also a danger of traders passing off elephant ivory as legal mammoth ivory. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) 1n any of numerous extinct elephants widely distributed in the Pleistocene; extremely large with hairy coats and long upcurved tusks Hypo|Hyper Mammuthus primigenius, northern mammoth, woolly mammoth very hairy mammoth common in colder portions of the northern hemisphere Mammuthus columbi, columbian mammotha variety of mammoth Archidiskidon imperator, imperial elephant, imperial mammothlargest known mammoth; of America elephant five-toed pachyderm 2adj so exceedingly large or extensive as to suggest a giant or mammoth a mammoth ship a mammoth multinational corporation Syn gigantic big, large above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent |
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