English-Thai Dictionary

mammoth

N สัตว์ ขนาดใหญ่ ซึ่ง สูญพันธุ์ ไป แล้ว ประมา ณ  10,000 ปี  มี ลักษณะ คล้าย ช้าง  ขน ยาว  งา โค้ง ยาว  sad-ka-nad-yai-sueng-sun-pan-pai-laeo-pra-man 10,000 pe

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

MAMMOTH

n.This name has been given to a hugh quadruped, now extinct, whose bones are found on both continents.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

MAMMOTH

Mam "moth, n. Etym: [Russ. mâmont, mámant, 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. ] (Zoöl.)

 

Defn: An extinct, hairy, maned elephant (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.

 

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.

 

MAMMOTH

MAMMOTH Mam "moth, a.

 

Defn: Resembling the mammoth in size; very large; gigantic; as, a mammoth ox.

 

MAMMOTHREPT

Mam "mo *thrept, n. Etym: [Gr.

 

Defn: A child brought up by its grandmother; a spoiled child. [R.] O, you are a more mammothrept in judgment. B. Jonson.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

mammoth

mam moth |ˈmaməTH ˈmæməθ | ▶noun a large extinct elephant of the Pleistocene epoch, typically hairy with a sloping back and long curved tusks. [Genus Mammuthus, family Elephantidae: several species. ] ▶adjective huge: a mammoth corporation. ORIGIN early 18th cent.: from Russian mamo (n )t, probably of Siberian origin.

 

Mammoth Cave National Park

Mam moth Cave Na tion al Park a national park in west central Kentucky, site of the largest known cave system in the world. It consists of over 300 miles (480 km ) of charted passageways and contains some spectacular rock formations.

 

Oxford Dictionary

mammoth

mam |moth |ˈmaməθ | ▶noun a large extinct elephant of the Pleistocene epoch, typically hairy with a sloping back and long curved tusks. ●Genus Mammuthus, family Elephantidae: several species. See woolly mammoth . ▶adjective huge: a mammoth corporation. ORIGIN early 18th cent.: from Russian mamo (n )t, probably of Siberian origin.

 

Mammoth Cave National Park

Mammoth Cave National Park a national park in west central Kentucky, site of the largest known cave system in the world. It consists of over 480 km (300 miles ) of charted passageways and contains some spectacular rock formations.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

mammoth

mammoth adjective a crisis of mammoth proportions: huge, enormous, gigantic, giant, colossal, massive, vast, immense, mighty, stupendous, monumental, Herculean, epic, prodigious, mountainous, monstrous, titanic, towering, elephantine, king-size (d ), economy-size (d ), gargantuan, Brobdingnagian; informal mega, monster, whopping, honking, humongous, bumper, jumbo, astronomical, ginormous. ANTONYMS tiny.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

mammoth

mammoth adjective a mammoth task | a crisis of mammoth proportions: huge, enormous, gigantic, giant, colossal, massive, vast, immense, mighty, stupendous, monumental, Herculean, epic, prodigious, mountainous, monstrous, titanic, towering, elephantine, king-sized, king-size, gargantuan, Brobdingnagian; informal mega, monster, whopping great, thumping, thumping great, humongous, jumbo, bumper, astronomical, astronomic; Brit. informal whacking, whacking great, ginormous. ANTONYMS tiny.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

mammoth

mam moth /mǽməθ /形容詞 〖名詞 の前で 〗巨大な .名詞 C マンモス 〘数千年前に絶滅した巨象 〙.