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- a large extinct elephant of the Pleistocene epoch, typically hairy with a sloping back and long curved tusks猛犸, 长毛象。
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- Genus Mammuthus, family Elephantidae: several species.猛犸象属, 象科：数种。参见WOOLLY MAMMOTH.
- huge巨大的, 庞大的：
a mammoth corporation.
庞大的公司。
词源
early 18th cent.: from Russian mamo(n)t, probably of Siberian origin.