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n.

【古生】毛象[C]

a.

巨大的，庞大的
Building the new railroad will be a mammoth job.
修建那条新铁路将是一项巨大工程。
a mammoth enterprise
一个庞大的企业

辨析

同义:

a.巨大的

huge gigantic immense vast enormous giant colossal titanic monumental

同义参见:

large jumbo whale¹ prodigious bulky

以上来源于：《英汉大辞典》

n.

a large extinct elephant of the Pleistocene epoch, typically hairy and with long curved tusks. [Mammuthus primigenius (woolly mammoth) and related species.]

adj.

huge.

Etymology

C18: from Russ. mamo(n)t, prob. of Siberian origin.

以上来源于：《简明牛津英语词典》