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any large, elephantlike mammal of the extinct genus Mammuthus, from the Pleistocene Epoch, having hairy skin and ridged molar teeth.

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immensely large; huge; enormous: a mammoth organization.

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Origin:
1690–1700; < Russian mam(m)ot (now mámont), first used in reference to remains of the animal found in Siberia; origin uncertain

Synonyms
2. See gigantic.

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If it has to be a mammoth conference, it had better be someplace nice.

On one side was a mammoth corporation, little loved on the left.

From micro shrimp to mammoth hippos, the planet's wetlands host miraculous diversity.

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If it has to be a mammoth conference, it had better be someplace nice.

On one side was a mammoth corporation, little loved on the left.

From micro shrimp to mammoth hippos, the planet's wetlands host miraculous diversity.

Alternatively, woolly mammoth anatomy may have varied through time and from region to region.

Inky splotches across its mammoth leaves give this new elephant's ear a gothic sort of glamour.

Above anything else, the woolly mammoth is an evolutionary icon for its role in proving the truth of extinction.

The lasting benefits of such mammoth theatricals, however, are often questionable.

Missing tips mean that the earliest years of mammoth life remain poorly understood and age estimates for adults are imprecise.

He is currently writing a book about early woolly mammoth discoveries.

The mammoth traffic jam that left thousands of truckers sitting in gridlock for more than a week has vanished.

Penalties have often been big enough to dent profits, even at mammoth corporations.

Mammoth wind turbines may soon dot the shallow coastal seas of the world.

The scheme succeeded, if you discount the eerily straight, flat boulevards and the mammoth scale of the enterprise.

In an industry conducted on the mammoth scale of carmaking, failed experiments usually brought disaster.

Of course there are cases where projectile points have been found embedded in mammoth bones.

Not all miners reckon that attempting mammoth mergers is the best use of their bulging wallets.

For instance, the hairy mammoth seems to have been an admirable animal, intelligent and well-accoutered.

But doing this for thousands of products would be a mammoth undertaking.

The mammoth legislation is impenetrable, a widely noted fact.

The opening of state schools is the hopeful beginning of a mammoth undertaking.

But renewed dollar purchases on the mammoth scale of early this year seem unlikely.

So it has been since a spear missed the mammoth and hit a tribesman.

Bringing back the woolly mammoth is an intriguing notion, but perhaps not highest on our list of priorities.

But when it comes to a foreign book, figuring out its copyright status can require a mammoth investigation.

They include the mammoth taimen, catfish the size of bears, and half-ton river stingrays.

Researchers recreated mammoth hemoglobin and found it delivers oxygen at ultralow temperatures, a finding that could.

They are mammoth corals, and there are hundreds of them in front of us.

And even if you've got a room big enough to contain this mammoth display, how.

Mammoth concrete stores and acres of parking spaces.

Prehistoric humans painted images of the animals on cave walls and carved their likeness in fragments of mammoth tusk.

The monument will be studiously plain, but it will attract great attention from its mammoth size.

The building, a mammoth sunlit elliptical dome fashioned.

Its breathtaking to hear someone detailing an explanation involving something generally overlooked but of mammoth importance.

Less credulous scientists of later centuries believe the skeleton was a fake fashioned out of mammoth bones or other fossils.

The bear's mitochondrial genome is the oldest one yet reported from a mammal-nearly twice as old as the mammoth genome.

People living in those areas may have used dogs to haul mammoth meat from kill areas and as sentinels, he proposes.

Over the decades, they've tried everything from fortified sandbars to mammoth cruise ships.

For now, alas, the political trade-offs and mammoth infrastructure development this would require make it seem unimaginable.

It seemed a fitting objective, for such a mammoth cultural figure.

Such divisions are a huge distraction from the mammoth task facing the opposition.

Clearly this is a public health problem of mammoth proportion, and unlikely to spontaneously resolve.

There may be more than one way to attack a mammoth or giant sloth, but some ways would certainly have been better than others.

Of course this issue is only one of a mammoth handful of insidious problems plaguing our world today.

Sharing that playing and paying field is free culture's mammoth challenge.

Not even a mammoth economy can afford piling up debt indefinitely.

China is past the point in history where a single tiannamen can subdue a mammoth nation.

Schoedsack piloted the plane that fires the final rounds into the mammoth primate.

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World English Dictionary

mammoth (ˈmæməθ)

—n
1.	any large extinct elephant of the Pleistocene genus Mammuthus (or Elephas), such as M. primigenius (woolly mammoth), having a hairy coat and long curved tusks

—*adj*
2.	of gigantic size or importance

[C18: from Russian mamot, from Tatar mamont, perhaps from mamma earth, because of a belief that the animal made burrows]

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Word Origin & History

mammoth

1706, from Rus. mammot', probably from Ostyak (a Finno-Ugric language of northern Russia, cf. Finnish maa "earth"). Because the remains were dug from the earth, the animal was believed to root like a mole. The adj. is 1802 in Amer.Eng., in reference to the beasts' enormous size.

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mammoth

(mām'əth) Pronunciation Key
Any of various extinct elephants of the genus Mammuthus, having long, upwardly curving tusks and thick hair. Mammoths grew to great size and lived throughout the Northern Hemisphere during the ice age.

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