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Definition: Mammoth |
MammothAdjective1. So exceedingly large or extensive as to suggest a giant or mammoth; "a gigantic redwood"; "gigantic disappointment"; "a mammoth ship"; "a mammoth multinational corporation". Noun1. Any of numerous extinct elephants widely distributed in the Pleistocene; extremely large with hairy coats and long upcurved tusks. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "mammoth" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1851. (references) |
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Mammoth Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Proboscidea Family: Mammutidae Genus: Mammuthus A mammoth is any of a number of an extinct genus of elephant, often with long curved tusks and, in northern species, a covering of long hair. They inhabited the northern regions of the world, in Europe, northern Asia, and North America.
Many types of mammoth lived in temperate and northern climes: the frozen remains of woolly mammoths have been found in the northern parts of Siberia.
Frozen mammoth corpses, when removed from the ice, often prove remarkably fresh: dogs accompanying the finders sometimes ate the flesh. There have been proposals to clone freshly defrosted mammoths in order to revive the species.
In addition to occasional frozen mammoths, large amounts of mammoth ivory were found in Siberia, and were an article of trade for many centuries.
It is a common misconception that mammoths were much larger than modern elephants, an error that has led to "mammoth" being used as a adjective meaning "very big". The largest known species, the Imperial Mammoth of California, reached heights of at least 4 meters at the shoulder. However, most species of mammoth were about as large as a modern Indian elephant, and fossils of a species of dwarf mammoth have been found on remote islands off the east coast of Siberia.
The mammoths diverged from the Asian elephants after the latter group split from the African elephants, meaning that the mammoths were in fact more closely related to the modern Indian elephant than the African elephant is. Since there is a known case in which an Indian elephant and an African elephant have produced a live offspring, it has been theorised that if mammoths were still alive today, they would be able to interbreed with Indian elephants, and this has led to the idea that perhaps a mammoth-like beast could be recreated by taking genetic material from a frozen mammoth and combining it with that from a modern Indian elephant. However, not enough genetic material has been found in frozen mammoths for this to be attempted [1].
See also: Mastodon
External link
- "The Mammoth Story" by Grant Keddie - an article on the Royal British Columbia Museum website
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Mammoth is a town located in Pinal County, Arizona. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 1,762.Geography
Mammoth is located at 32°43'20" North, 110°38'39" West (32.722140, -110.644209)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 2.8 km² (1.1 mi²). 2.8 km² (1.1 mi²) of it is land and none of it is covered by water.Demographics
As of the census2 of 2000, there are 1,762 people, 562 households, and 440 families residing in the town. The population density is 629.9/km² (1,626.5/mi²). There are 697 housing units at an average density of 249.2/km² (643.4/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 61.92% White, 0.11% Black or African American, 1.53% Native American, 0.34% Asian, 0.17% Pacific Islander, 31.90% from other races, and 4.03% from two or more races. 72.99% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 562 households out of which 39.0% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 55.0% are married couples living together, 16.0% have a female householder with no husband present, and 21.7% are non-families. 18.5% of all households are made up of individuals and 9.8% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 3.14 and the average family size is 3.54. In the town the population is spread out with 33.5% under the age of 18, 8.9% from 18 to 24, 25.8% from 25 to 44, 20.1% from 45 to 64, and 11.6% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 32 years. For every 100 females there are 97.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 95.3 males. The median income for a household in the town is $29,861, and the median income for a family is $32,661. Males have a median income of $32,768 versus $19,028 for females. The per capita income for the town is $9,878. 28.1% of the population and 23.8% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 39.4% are under the age of 18 and 10.6% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Mammoth, Arizona."
Synonym: MammothSynonym: gigantic (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Size | Huge, immense, enormous, mighty; vast, vasty; amplitudinous, stupendous; monster, monstrous, humongous, monumental; elephantine, jumbo, mammoth; gigantic, gigantean, giant, giant like, prodigious, colossal, Cyclopean, Brobdingnagian, Bunyanesque, Herculean, Gargantuan; infinite. |
Giant, Brobdingnagian, Antaeus, Goliath, Gog and Magog, Gargantua, monster, mammoth, Cyclops; cachalot, whale, porpoise, behemoth, leviathan, elephant, hippopotamus; colossus; tun, cord, lump, bulk, block, loaf, mass, swad, clod, nugget, bushel, thumper, whooper, spanker, strapper; "Triton among the minnows". | |
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Crosswords: Mammoth |
| English words defined with "mammoth": American mastodon, American mastodont, Archidiskidon imperator ♦ Blindfish ♦ columbian mammoth ♦ gigantic ♦ imperial elephant, imperial mammoth ♦ Mammut americanum, Mammuthus columbi, Mammuthus primigenius ♦ northern mammoth ♦ woolly mammoth. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "mammoth": Mammoth Cave. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Mammoth" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Manx (mammoth). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Coaches Arriving at Mammoth Hot Springs (1899) Land of the Mammoth (2001) Raising the Mammoth (2000) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Mammoth Tusk found along Bridge Creek. Credit: Scott Thomas. |  | Croghan Hall, two men near maelstrom in Mammoth Cave, Kentucky] / AC. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The mammoth thing stirred -- lifted -- swung. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Favorite authors of fiction. Mammoth shows!. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Preparation for the great national peace jubilee, at Boston, Mass. - the members of the mammoth oratorio chorus, numbering three thousand, rehearsing at the Boston Music Hall, May 19th / from a sketch by A. Berghaus. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Mammoth statues lining the approach to the Ming tombs, Peking, China. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The Mammoth oak at Pass Christian, Miss. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Liberty Cap, Mammoth Hot Springs. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Mammoth Cave, Ky.--looking backward / Miss Johnston. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Mammoth Cave Hotel grounds. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Mammoth teeth" by Julia Eisenberg Commentary: "Mammoth teeth." |
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Economic History | Bangladesh | The Jamuna Multipurpose Bridge, a mammoth $1 billion engineering and construction project which spans the Jamuna river, connecting east and west Bangladesh for the first time, was completed in June 1998. Inland waterways are extensive and inland water transportation accounts for about 65.0% of domestic cargo transportation and about 38.0% of inter-district passenger traffic, despite seasonal siltation problems and inadequate inland port facilities. (references) |
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| "Mammoth" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.37% of the time. "Mammoth" is used about 193 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 96.37% | 186 | 22,556 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.63% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 193 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
1. Mammoth, AZ (town, FIPS 43990) 2. Mammoth, WV |
Expressions using "mammoth": columbian mammoth ♦ imperial mammoth ♦ Mammoth Cave Nat ♦ mammoth Cave National Park ♦ Mammoth Lakes ♦ mammoth pump ♦ Mammoth Spring ♦ mammoth tanker ♦ northern mammoth ♦ woolly mammoth. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "mammoth": mammoth-hunter, mammoth-length. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
mammoth | 2,163 | mammoth california | 46 |
mammoth lake | 2,085 | mammoth ski resort | 42 |
mammoth cave | 1,441 | mammoth lake camping | 41 |
mammoth lake ca | 772 | mammoth mountain inn | 40 |
mammoth mountain | 659 | mammoth times | 37 |
area ca mammoth mountain ski | 250 | mammoth lake real estate | 36 |
mammoth cave national park | 216 | mammoth real estate | 30 |
woolly mammoth | 163 | mammoth motocross mountain | 30 |
mammoth cave kentucky | 119 | cave mammoth tour | 29 |
mammoth cave ky | 108 | mammoth ivory | 29 |
mammoth ca | 98 | mammoth hot spring | 27 |
mammoth lake hotel | 74 | mammoth hot springs | 25 |
mammoth ski | 63 | mammoth spring ar | 24 |
mammoth lake california | 56 | camping cave mammoth | 23 |
mammoth resort | 53 | mammoth video | 22 |
kenosha mammoth | 53 | mammoth picture | 22 |
mammoth golf | 51 | the mammoth hunter | 21 |
mammoth reservation | 50 | cock mammoth | 20 |
mammoth motocross | 48 | mammoth lake lodging | 20 |
mammoth cave hotel | 47 | court mammoth | 19 |
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| Language | Translations for "mammoth"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | mamuth, vigan (colossal, enormous, giant, gigantesque, huge, immense, jumbo, leviathan, monster, mountainous, ogre, Samson, swingeing, Titanic, towering). (various references) | |
Arabic | ماموث فيل منقرض عملاق, ضخم (astronomic, astronomical, awful, big, bulking, bulky, bull, colossal, colossus, considerable, distend, elephantine, enormous, exaggerate, extend, exuberant, fat, gargantuan, ghastly, giant, gigantic, goodly, grand, great, handsome, heavy, hefty, heroic, huge, hulking, husky, immense, intense, jumbo, large, leviathan, liberal, mass, massive, mighty, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, outsize, oversize, palatial, phenomenal, powerful, prodigious, proud, round, royal, sizable, smart, strapping, strong, stupendous, sublime, swingeing, tall, tidy, titan, titanic, towering, tremendous, vast, voluminous, whacking, whopping), شىء عملاق. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | гигантски (giant, giantlike, gigantesque, gigantic, oversize), огромен (enormous, formidable, gargantuan, giantlike, herculean, howling, huge, mighty, monumental, mountainous, oceanic, oversize, planetary, portentous, prodigious, slashing, super, terrible, terrific, thumping, thundering, tremendous, unwieldy, vast, walloping, whacking, whaling, whopping), мамут, мамонт. (various references) | |
Chinese | 声势浩大. (various references) | |
Czech | mamut. (various references) | |
Danish | mammuttrae (big tree, giant sequoia, mammoth tree, redwood, sequoia), mammutpumpe (gas lift pump, mammoth pump), supertankskib (mammoth tanker, supertanker), supertanker (mammoth tanker, supertanker). (various references) | |
Dutch | mammoettanker (mammoth tanker, supertanker), mammoetsboom (big tree, giant sequoia, mammoth tree, redwood, sequoia), mammoetpomp (gas lift pump, mammoth pump), mammoetboom (big tree, giant sequoia, mammoth tree, redwood, sequoia), supertanker (mammoth tanker, supertanker), grote broederij (mammoth incubator). (various references) | |
Farsi | فیل بزرگ دوره ماقبل تاریخ . (various references) | |
Finnish | mammutti. (various references) | |
French | monstre (mass), mammouth, géant, énorme (massive). (various references) | |
German | riesig (colossal, enormous, enormously, gargantuan, giant, giantly, gigantic, huge, hugely, immeasurable, immense, immensely, jumbo, mammothly, massive, monolithic, monstrous, mountainous, sprawling, tremendous, tremendously, vast, walloping), Mammut. (various references) | |
Greek | μαμμούθ, πελώριοσ (gigantic, huge, monumental, thumping). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ממותה, ענקי (colossal, enormous, gargantuan, giant, gigantesque, gigantic, huge, immense, stupendous, walloping). (various references) | |
Hungarian | mammut-, mammut, igen nagy (extreme, huge, mortal, walloping), óriási (capital, colossal, elephantine, enormous, gargantuan, giant, giantlike, gigantean, gigantesque, gigantic, grandiose, helluva, huge, immeasurable, immense, jumbo, monster, monstrous, mountainous, prodigious, smashing, smashing victory, stupendous, terrific, tremendous, vast, vasty, way-out, whacking, whopping), óriás-. (various references) | |
Italian | mastodontico (colossal, enormous, mastodonic, mastodontic), mammut, gigantesco (colossal, enormous, gargantuan, giant, gigantic, huge), enorme (awful, enormous, gargantuan, huge, immense, monster, swingeing, tremendous, walloping, whopping). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | マンハッタン計画 (mambo, mambo jupon, mammon, mammonist, mammoth tanker, man machine interface, Manhattan Project, manhole, manhunt, man-machine interface, man-power, MMI). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | マンモス . (various references) | |
Manx | mammoth, buillvollee (colossal, enormous, gargantuan, giant, gigantic). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ammothmay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | mamute, gigantesco (bloodcurdling, colossal, gargantuan, giantlike, gigantic, huge, monstrous, titanic), enorme (big, bloodcurdling, cursed, deuced, enormous, gargantuan, gigantic, gross, howling, huge, immense, large, measureless, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, prodigious, rousing, stupendous, swingeing, terrific, thumping, thundering, tremendous, unco, unconscionable, untold, walloping, whacking, whopping). (various references) | |
Romanian | mamut, uriaş (astronomic, astronomical, colossal, colossus, elephantine, enormous, giant, giantlike, gigantic, goliath, huge, immense, infinite, mite, monster, monumental, mountainous, ogre, prodigious, strapping, thumping, vast), gigantic (colossal, giant, giantlike, gigantic, huge, monster, Titanic, vast). (various references) | |
Russian | громадный (cyclopean, enormous, enourmous, gigantic, huge, hulking, immense, mighty, monster, monstrous, mountainous, prodigious, swingeing, thumping, thundering, tremendous, vast, whaling), мамонт огромный, мамонт. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | mamutski, mamut. (various references) | |
Spanish | gigantesco (gargantuan, giant, gigantesque, gigantic, Titanic). (various references) | |
Swedish | mammut, kolossal (colossal, enormous, huge, immense, jumbo, mighty, monumental, sweeping, thumping, tremendous, whacking). (various references) | |
Turkish | mamut, kocaman (big, bulky, colossal, cyclopean, elephantine, enormous, fab, frightful, gargantuan, gigantean, gigantic, gross, huge, hugely, hulking, hulky, jumbo-sized, monster, of vast dimensions, prodigious, rousing, tearing, thumping, thundering, tremendous, walloping, whacking, whaling, whopping), dev gibi (cyclopean, gargantuan, giantlike, gigantean, gigantic, huge, hugely, Titanic). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | велетенський (giantlike, gigantesque, monster), мамонт. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | voi mamut, voi cổ, to lớn (bouncing, bulky, capacious, colossal, cyclopean, enourmous, enourmously, goodly, great, howling, huge, massive, massy, monster, titanic), khổng lồ (colossal, decuman, gargantuan, giantlike, gigantic, huge, monster, thumping, titanesque, titanic). (various references) | |
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Sequoia gigantea, Sequoiadendron giganteum, Wellingtonia gigantea. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "mammoth": mammoths. (additional references) | |
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"Mammoth" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Mametz, mammot, mammott, mammouth, mammut, Mamoh, mamoth, Mcmath, Melmoth, Memmott, Meymott, Mumith, Namath, Namuth. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "mammoth" (pronounced ma"muth) |
| 3 | -m u th | behemoth, bismuth. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-h-m-m-m-o-t" | |
-2 letters: momma. | |
-3 letters: ammo, atom, math, moat, moth, oath. | |
-4 letters: ham, hao, hat, hmm, hot, mat, mho, moa, mom, mot, oat, ohm, tam, tao, tho, tom. | |
-5 letters: ah, am, at, ha, hm, ho, ma, mm, mo, oh, om, ta, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-h-m-m-m-o-t" | |
+1 letter: mammoths. | |
+5 letters: metamorphism. | |
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