mammutti — meaning in English

English meaning

• elephant noun A very large mammal with a long trunk, big ears, and tusks, native to Africa and Asia.
• mammoth noun An extinct, elephant-like animal covered in shaggy hair, with long curved tusks, that lived during the Ice Age.

Senses

mammutti is used for these senses in English:

• elephant (figurative) Anything huge and ponderous.
• mammoth Comparable to a mammoth in its size; very large, huge, gigantic.
• mammoth Any species of the extinct genus Mammuthus, of large, usually hairy, elephant-like mammals with long curved tusks and an inclined back, which became extinct with the last retreat of ice age glaciers during the late Pleistocene period, and are known from fossils, frozen carcasses, and Paleolithic cave paintings found in North America and Eurasia.

elephant — full definition

1. noun A very large mammal with a long trunk, big ears, and tusks, native to Africa and Asia.
2. noun Something enormous or unwieldy, used figuratively.

mammoth — full definition

1. noun An extinct, elephant-like animal covered in shaggy hair, with long curved tusks, that lived during the Ice Age.
2. adjective Extremely large.

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