mammoth

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++mam·moth1 /ˈmæməθ/ adjective [only before noun] BIGextremely large 巨大的，庞大的 SYN enormous, gigantic Reforming the prison system would be a mammoth task. 改革监狱制度将是一项巨大的任务。 a mammoth corporation 庞大的公司

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mammoth• There are some 150 types of basil, including anise, lemon, cinnamon, mammoth, and purple varieties.• Could it be you hate the idea of mammoth dining rooms with two mammoth seatings?• This country has a mammoth drug problem.• After the war, the engineers had to invent some mammoth excavation devices to shoehorn them out.• Same mammoth grandstands rising into the sky.• In 1893, his work culminated in a mammoth paper written in a language not of physics but of dollars and cents.• Giant dunes of crushed rock and miles of mammoth piping line the road.• Absolutely mammoth, the book never bores.• On the seventeenth, a short par-four curving to the left, Peter grunted after hitting a mammoth Whiplash drive.

Related topics: Animals

mammoth2 noun [countable] HBAan animal like a large hairy elephant that lived on Earth thousands of years ago 猛犸（象），毛象

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mammoth• After the mammoths disappeared, hunters used a smaller point, called the Folsom point, to kill prehistoric bison.• Cuvier noticed that the most recently extinct creatures such as the mammoth were closely related to living species.• The mammoth had a shaggy coat to protect it against the rigours of the ice ages.Origin mammoth2 (1700-1800) Russian mamont, mamot