English Dictionary

mammoth

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈmæməθ/

名詞

廃用 比喩的用法

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.

日本語の意味

マンモス：Mammuthus属に属する絶滅した大型の哺乳類。通常は体毛があり、長く曲がった牙と傾いた背を持ち、氷河期の終わりとともに絶滅し、化石や氷結した死骸、旧石器時代の洞窟壁画などから知られている。

The museum's new exhibit features a remarkably preserved mammoth skeleton that drew crowds.

博物館の新しい展示には、驚くほど保存状態の良いマンモスの骨格が展示されており、見物客を集めた。

意味（1）

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.

Maimanto, as they say a sea elephant which is never seene, but accordinge to the Samuites he workes himselfe under grownde and so they finde his teeth or homes or bones in Pechore and Nova Zemla of which they […]

意味（2）

(obsolete) A mastodon.

Many of our readers will remember the skeleton of the American mammoth, now the Mastodonton, being exhibited in London by Mr. Rembrandt Peale.

意味（3）

(figuratively) Something very large of its kind.

The last load, as we Yankees say, was a Mammoth: […] producing an aggregate of nearly twelve cords.

mammoths （ plural ）