mammoth

Any of various extinct elephants of the genus Mammuthus of the Pliocene, Pleistocene, and Holocene Epochs, having ridged molars and often, as in the woolly mammoth, long tusks and hair.

Something that is of great size.

Of enormous size, extent, or amount; huge. synonym: enormous.

Of great scope or importance.

An extinct species of elephant, Elephas primigenius.

Of great comparative size, like a mammoth; gigantic; colossal; immense: as, a mammoth ox; the mammoth tree of California (Sequoia gigantea).

Resembling the mammoth in size; very large; gigantic.

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.

A large, hairy, extinct elephant-like mammal of the taxonomic genus Mammuthus.

Something very large of its kind.