Meaning of Mammoth | Babel Free

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1. 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.
2. A mastodon.
   obsolete
3. Something very large of its kind.
   figuratively
4. A kind of large donkey.

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Examples

“Maimanto, as they say a sea elephant which is never seene, but accordinge to the Samuites he workes himselfe under grownde and so they finde his teeth or homes or bones in Pechore and Nova Zemla of which they […]”

“The Mammotovoy, which is dug out of the Earth in Siberia.”

“The old Siberian Russians affirm that the Mammuth is very like the Elephant.”

“Many of our readers will remember the skeleton of the American mammoth, now the Mastodonton, being exhibited in London by Mr. Rembrandt Peale.”

“The last load, as we Yankees say, was a "Mammoth": […] producing an aggregate of nearly twelve cords.”

“That is a lot of ship, about the size of big tankers before they grew so rapidly to become supers, mammoths and oilbergs.”

“Mammoths are taller than 54 inches. Each can carry up to 25% of its weight in combined tack, supplies, and rider.”

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