mammoth

mammoth
    adj 1: so exceedingly large or extensive as to suggest a giant
           or mammoth; "a gigantic redwood"; "gigantic
           disappointment"; "a mammoth ship"; "a mammoth
           multinational corporation" [syn: {gigantic}, {mammoth}]
    n 1: any of numerous extinct elephants widely distributed in the
         Pleistocene; extremely large with hairy coats and long
         upcurved tusks
    

Mammoth \Mam"moth\ (m[a^]m"m[o^]th), n. [Russ. m[^a]mont,
   m['a]mant, 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.] (Zool.)
   An extinct, hairy, maned elephant ({Mammuthus primigenius}
   formerly {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.
   [1913 Webster]

   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.
         [1913 Webster]
    

Mammoth \Mam"moth\ (m[a^]m"m[o^]th), a.
   Resembling the mammoth in size; very large; gigantic; as, a
   mammoth ox.
   [1913 Webster]
    

Mammoth, AZ (town, FIPS 43990)
  Location: 32.72151 N, 110.64350 W
  Population (1990): 1845 (673 housing units)
  Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
  Zip code(s): 85618
Mammoth, WV
  Zip code(s): 25132
    

Mammoth, AZ -- U.S. town in Arizona
   Population (2000):    1762
   Housing Units (2000): 697
   Land area (2000):     1.083314 sq. miles (2.805770 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    1.083314 sq. miles (2.805770 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            43990
   Located within:       Arizona (AZ), FIPS 04
   Location:             32.722140 N, 110.644209 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):     85618
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    Mammoth, AZ
    Mammoth
    

123 Moby Thesaurus words for "mammoth":
      Atlantean, Brobdingnagian, Cyclopean, Gargantuan, Herculean,
      Homeric, Jumbo, abysmal, ammonite, amplitudinous, ankylosaur,
      archaeohippus, archaeotherium, archelon, arthrodiran, astronomic,
      astronomical, aurochs, awesome, bothriolepis, boundless,
      brachiosaur, brontops, brontothere, bulky, coccostean, coelodont,
      colossal, compsognathus, coryphodon, cosmic, cotylosaur, creodont,
      crossopterygian, cynodictis, diatryma, dimetrodon, dinichthyid,
      dinosaur, dinothere, diplodocus, duck-billed dinosaur,
      edaphosaurid, elasmosaur, elephant, elephantine, enormous, epic,
      eryopsid, eurypterid, extensive, galactic, gargantuan, giant,
      giant sloth, giantlike, gigantic, glyptodont, hadrosaur, hathi,
      heroic, hippo, hippopotamus, huge, immeasurable, immense, infinite,
      jumbo, king-size, large, leviathan, massive, massy, mastodon,
      mighty, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, outsize,
      overgrown, pachyderm, palaeodictyopteron, palaeoniscid, palaeophis,
      palaeosaur, palaeospondylus, pelycosaur, phytosaur, plesiosaur,
      prodigious, profound, protoceratops, protylopus, pteranodon,
      pteraspid, pterichthys, pterodactyl, pterosaur, rhino, rhinoceros,
      river horse, sauropod, scelidosaur, sizable, smilodon, spacious,
      stupendous, titanic, titanosaur, towering, trachodon, tremendous,
      triceratops, trilobite, tyrannosaur, uintathere, urus, vast,
      voluminous, weighty, whale, woolly mammoth