mammoth

詳細解釋：

mam.moth

n.（名詞）
Any of various large, hairy, extinct elephants of the genusMammuthus, especially the woolly mammoth (M. primigenius), once widespread in the Northern Hemisphere.
猛獁：一種猛獁 屬體形大、有毛且已絕種了的象，尤指體毛髮達的猛獁 （猛獁象） 曾廣泛分布於北半球
Something of great size.
龐然大物：具有碩大體積的東西
adj.（形容詞）
Of enormous size; huge.See Synonyms at enormous
龐大的：體積龐大的；巨大的參見 enormous

來源：
Obsolete Russian mamut, mamot
已廢俄語 mamut, mamot

<注釋>The mammoth was introduced to the English-speaking world after mammoth skeletons were discovered in Siberia,so it is no surprise that this creature`s name is taken from Russian,even though the animal roamed over Eurasia and North America.The Russian word, nowmamant` but formerlymamot as well, was borrowed into English in variant spellings.It was first recorded in 70'in the formMammuth, but in 7'3 we find the formmammon. It is said that the Russian word is a borrowing of an Ostyak word (the Ostyak people live in western Siberia),but this has not been proved.
猛獁這個詞是在西伯利亞發現猛獁骨骼之後才引入英文的，所以這種動物的名稱起源於俄語也就不足為奇了，儘管這種動物曾在歐亞大陸和北美到處遊蕩。俄語中的這個詞，現在是mamant` ， 但以前為mamot ， 被引入英文時出現了不同的拼寫方法。最早的記載是70'年，其形式是Mammuth， 但在7'3年，其形式就變成了mammon。 據說俄語這個詞也是源於一個奧斯加克語中一個詞（奧斯加克人居住於西伯利亞西部），但這種說法還沒有得到證實