mammoth

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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.

   “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 […]”

2. isim A mastodon.

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

3. isim Something very large of its kind.

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

4. isim A kind of large donkey.

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

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

   “I recieved [sic] from the persons to whom the inclosed is directed, a present of a quarter of a Mammoth-veal which at 115. days old weighed 438. lb.”