Mammoth
['mæməθ]
Definition
(noun.) any of numerous extinct elephants widely distributed in the Pleistocene; extremely large with hairy coats and long upcurved tusks.
Editor: William--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) An extinct, hairy, maned elephant (Elephas primigenius), of enormous size, remains of which are found in the northern parts of both continents. The last of the race, in Europe, were coeval with prehistoric man.
(a.) Resembling the mammoth in size; very large; gigantic; as, a mammoth ox.
Editor: Rebekah
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Fossil elephant (Elephas primigenus).
a. Gigantic, very large.
Typist: Nicholas
Definition
n. an extinct species of elephant.—adj. resembling the mammoth in size: very large.
Typist: Stanley
Examples
- Who would have believed in the mammoth, had not the huge beast been reconstructed by Cuvier? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- In this land, they found some mammoth bones: there are no mammoths now. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The mammoth and the horse are among the commonest themes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- One of these mammoth engines is capable of drawing a train of box cars, loaded with wheat, and more than a mile long, at a speed of ten miles an hour. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The mammoth new aqueduct system by which water is carried from the Catskills to the Battery is another example of electricity as a source of power for large construction work. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- This mammoth vessel was too large and unwieldy for the uses for which she was designed, and proved a bad investment. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Huge shells filled with high explosives from these mammoth guns rapidly destroyed the most modern and powerful fortifications known at the beginning of the great war. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- At the Vienna Exposition in 1873, the first mammoth saw of this description was exhibited. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- An arctic fauna, musk ox, woolly mammoth, woolly rhinoceros, lemming, ushers in the Pleistocene. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They were hunting peoples, and some or all of them appear to have hunted the mammoth and the wild horse as well as the reindeer, bison, and aurochs. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The prevailing animals in the spreading woods of Europe were the royal stag, the great ox, and the bison; the mammoth and the musk ox had gone. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There is a suggestion in some of the drawings of a fence of stakes in which a mammoth seems to be entangled. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In this land, they found some mammoth bones: there are no mammoths now. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- At first there were hippopotami, rhinoceroses, mammoths, and elephants. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Typed by Claus