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mam·moth

mammoth

 
 
pronunciation:
mae mth
parts of speech:
noun, adjective
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part of speech: noun
definition: a very large extinct mammal closely related to elephants. Mammoths were much bigger than elephants, and had shaggy black fur and long tusks that curved upward. Several kinds of mammoths lived in the Northern Hemisphere until the end of the last Ice Age.
猛玛象
Mammoths were hunted by early humans, who may have caused mammoths to become extinct over ten thousand years ago.猛犸象被早期的人类捕猎,他们可能是超过一万年前造成猛犸象灭绝的原因。
similar words:
elephant
 
part of speech: adjective
definition: enormous; huge; gigantic.
庞大的
synonyms:
enormous, giant, gigantic, huge, immense
antonyms:
tiny
similar words:
big, jumbo, large, massive, monstrous, mountainous, tremendous, vast
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