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mam⋅moth

  [mam-uhth]
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–noun
1. any large, elephantlike mammal of the extinct genus Mammuthus, from the Pleistocene Epoch, having hairy skin and ridged molar teeth.
–adjective
2. immensely large; huge; enormous: a mammoth organization.
Origin:
1690–1700; < Russ mam(m)ot (now mámont), first used in reference to remains of the animal found in Siberia; orig. uncert.

Synonyms:
2. See gigantic.
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mam·moth   (mām'əth)   
n.  

  1. Any of various large, hairy, extinct elephants of the genus Mammuthus, especially the woolly mammoth.

  2. Something of great size.

adj.  Of enormous size; huge. See Synonyms at enormous.

[Obsolete Russian mamut, mamot.]
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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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