mammoth
意味
- マンモス(洪積世に生息した長毛の巨象)
- 巨大な
例文
The author's verbiage produced a document of mammoth size and microscopic import.
著者の冗漫なスタイルは膨大な書類を作り出したが、その内容は乏しい。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From obsolete Russian ма́мант (mámant), modern ма́монт (mámont), probably from a Uralic word, such as Proto-Mansi *mān-oŋt (“earth horn”). Possibly influenced by behemoth. Adjectival use was popularized in the early 1800s by references to the Cheshire Mammoth Cheese presented to American paleontologist and president Thomas Jefferson.