mammoth

Plural: mammoths

Noun

• A large, extinct elephant covered in long hair.
• any of numerous extinct elephants widely distributed in the Pleistocene; extremely large with hairy coats and long upcurved tusks
• Any species of the extinct genus Mammuthus, of large, usually hairy, elephant-like mammals with long curved tusks and an inclined back, which became extinct with the last retreat of ice age glaciers during the late Pleistocene period, and are known from fossils, frozen carcasses, and Paleolithic cave paintings found in North America and Eurasia.
• A mastodon.
• Something very large of its kind.
• A kind of large donkey.

Adjective Satellite

• so exceedingly large or extensive as to suggest a giant or mammoth
  • "a mammoth ship"
  • "a mammoth multinational corporation"

Adj

• Comparable to a mammoth in its size; very large, huge, gigantic.

Examples

• Playing MAMMOTH, he created a word so large it felt like a prehistoric beast on the board.

Synonyms

gigantic, colossal, enormous, huge, titanic

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