I. adjective
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This country has a mammoth drug problem.
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Absolutely mammoth , the book never bores.
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After the war, the engineers had to invent some mammoth excavation devices to shoehorn them out.
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Could it be you hate the idea of mammoth dining rooms with two mammoth seatings?
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Giant dunes of crushed rock and miles of mammoth piping line the road.
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In 1893, his work culminated in a mammoth paper written in a language not of physics but of dollars and cents.
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On the seventeenth, a short par-four curving to the left, Peter grunted after hitting a mammoth Whiplash drive.
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Same mammoth grandstands rising into the sky.
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There are some 150 types of basil, including anise, lemon, cinnamon, mammoth , and purple varieties.
II. noun
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After the mammoths disappeared, hunters used a smaller point, called the Folsom point, to kill prehistoric bison.
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Cuvier noticed that the most recently extinct creatures such as the mammoth were closely related to living species.
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The mammoth had a shaggy coat to protect it against the rigours of the ice ages.