mammoth

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  1. noun Any of various large, hairy, extinct elephants of the genus Mammuthus, especially the woolly mammoth.
  2. noun Something of great size.
  3. adjective Of enormous size; huge. See Synonyms at enormous.

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  • Although researchers are not actively pursuing the possibility of resurrecting the woolly mammoth, they believe with the rapid development of technology, the mammoth could be resurrected in the not-too-distant future, Schuster said. —  The Daily Collegian Online - News
  • The wooly mammoth, which is an ancestor of our modern elephant, lived on earth for
  • If the team thought the mammoth was a tough nemesis, then the giganotosaurus is truly epic. —  SCI FI Wire
  • The hunter initially thought the mammoth was a dead reindeer when he spotted parts of her body sticking out of damp snow. —  Breaking News - The Post Chronicle
  • Lyuba, as the mammoth was named, was only months old when she died some 40,000 years ago, but she has provided the scientific community with invaluable information on a species that's been extinct since the last ice age. —  Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Local News
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mammoth:   mammoths
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  1. Obsolete Russian mamut, mamot.

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  1. = French mammouth = Spanish mamut, mammath = German mammuth, from Russian mamantŭ, a mammoth, so called by a Russian named Ludloff in 1696, said to be from Tatar mamma, the earth, “because, the remains of these animals being found embedded in the earth, the natives [Yakuts and Tungusians] believed that they burrowed like moles” (Imp. Dict.).
 

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