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mammoth 音标拼音: [m'æməθ] n. 长毛象,庞然大物
a. 长毛象似的,巨大的 长毛象,庞然大物长毛象似的,巨大的 mammoth adj 1: so exceedingly large or extensive as to suggest a giant or mammoth; " a gigantic redwood"; " gigantic disappointment"; " a mammoth ship"; " a mammoth multinational corporation" [ synonym: { gigantic}, { mammoth}] n 1: any of numerous extinct elephants widely distributed in the Pleistocene; extremely large with hairy coats and long upcurved tusksMammoth \ Mam" moth\ ( m[ a^] m" m[ o^] th), n. [ Russ. m[^ a] mont, m[' a] mant, fr. Tartar mamma the earth. Certain Tartar races, the Tungooses and Yakoots, believed that the mammoth worked its way in the earth like a mole.] ( Zool.) An extinct, hairy, maned elephant ({ Mammuthus primigenius} formerly { 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. [ 1913 Webster] Note: Several specimens have been found in Siberia preserved entire, with the flesh and hair remaining. They were imbedded in the ice cliffs at a remote period, and became exposed by the melting of the ice. [ 1913 Webster]
Mammoth \ Mam" moth\ ( m[ a^] m" m[ o^] th), a. Resembling the mammoth in size; very large; gigantic; as, a mammoth ox. [ 1913 Webster] 123 Moby Thesaurus words for " mammoth": Atlantean, Brobdingnagian, Cyclopean, Gargantuan, Herculean, Homeric, Jumbo, abysmal, ammonite, amplitudinous, ankylosaur, archaeohippus, archaeotherium, archelon, arthrodiran, astronomic, astronomical, aurochs, awesome, bothriolepis, boundless, brachiosaur, brontops, brontothere, bulky, coccostean, coelodont, colossal, compsognathus, coryphodon, cosmic, cotylosaur, creodont, crossopterygian, cynodictis, diatryma, dimetrodon, dinichthyid, dinosaur, dinothere, diplodocus, duck- billed dinosaur, edaphosaurid, elasmosaur, elephant, elephantine, enormous, epic, eryopsid, eurypterid, extensive, galactic, gargantuan, giant, giant sloth, giantlike, gigantic, glyptodont, hadrosaur, hathi, heroic, hippo, hippopotamus, huge, immeasurable, immense, infinite, jumbo, king- size, large, leviathan, massive, massy, mastodon, mighty, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, outsize, overgrown, pachyderm, palaeodictyopteron, palaeoniscid, palaeophis, palaeosaur, palaeospondylus, pelycosaur, phytosaur, plesiosaur, prodigious, profound, protoceratops, protylopus, pteranodon, pteraspid, pterichthys, pterodactyl, pterosaur, rhino, rhinoceros, river horse, sauropod, scelidosaur, sizable, smilodon, spacious, stupendous, titanic, titanosaur, towering, trachodon, tremendous, triceratops, trilobite, tyrannosaur, uintathere, urus, vast, voluminous, weighty, whale, woolly mammoth
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