mammoth

🇬🇧 UK/'mæmәθ/🇺🇸 US
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Definitions

n.

A large extinct elephant-like animal with long curved tusks and a hairy coat that lived during the Ice Age

猛犸象(已灭绝的大型象类动物)

adj.

Extremely large; huge

巨大的,庞大的

🧩 Root Breakdown

Loanword
mammothother
=mammoth

Example Sentences

  • 1.

    The mammoth skeleton displayed at the museum was discovered frozen in Siberian permafrost.

  • 2.

    The project faced a mammoth task of rebuilding the entire infrastructure after the disaster.

  • 3.

    Mammoth success in the initial phase gave the team confidence to expand the program.

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