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mammoth (iou)



mammoth noun & adjective. E18.
[Russian mamo(n)t, prob. of Siberian origin.]
A. noun.
Pl. -s, same. Any of several very large extinct mammals of the Pleistocene genus Mammuthus, related to the elephants and known from fossil and mummified remains in northern Eurasia and N. America. E18.
imperial mammoth, Siberian mammoth, woolly mammoth.
b. A mastodon. US. E19.
A thing of huge size. L19.
b. adjective. Comparable to the mammoth in size; huge, gigantic. E19.
mammoth tree the wellingtonia, Sequoiadendron giganteum.
Lyndon B. Johnson The mammoth task of preparing a $100 billion budget.