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mammoth

/mam-uhth/US // ˈmæm əθ //UK // (ˈmæməθ) //

猛犸象,长毛象,猛犸犸象,猛犸

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any large, elephantlike mammal of the extinct genus Mammuthus, from the Pleistocene Epoch, having hairy skin and ridged molar teeth.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : immensely large; huge; enormous: a mammoth organization.

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Examples

  • At the bottom, several trails converged beneath a mammoth sandstone outcropping.

  • The Times is a mammoth news organization of roughly 1,700 journalists.

  • To be sure, mammoth additions like this have happened before.

  • That was when she first heard of Wrangel Island, a dot in the Arctic Ocean north of Siberia thought to be the last place on earth where woolly mammoth had survived.

  • That residue must have been acquired by pounding apart mammoth bones that were found scattered around the stones, the team argues.

  • And then when you want something satisfying, splash out a few dollars for a mammoth cupcake.

  • An army of Wildlings, some giants, and a woolly mammoth or two?

  • It was absolutely mammoth—a mammoth task—and one that took an awful lot of preparation.

  • The fact that a mammoth celebrity felt so threatened by the mere implication of male-on-male intimacy is undeniably interesting.

  • Rockefeller Republicans have long gone the way of the woolly mammoth.

  • In its foreground was a mammoth tree, shading the gables of a stone cottage; a ruined wall, half smothered by vines.

  • Inspired by a sense of deficiency, the doctor says that the visit to the Mammoth Cave terminated without any further incident.

  • Telegraph poles reared only their cross-arms above the mammoth drifts.

  • That was the great show: after that, mammoth cucumbers and carrots or rows of agricultural implements did not detain us long.

  • It was a well-executed wood-cut, showing a dingue in the foreground and, to give scale, a mammoth in the middle distance.