Difference between Mammoth and Large

What is the difference between Mammoth and Large?

Mammoth as an adjective is very large. while Large as an adjective is of considerable or relatively great size or extent.

Mammoth

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A large, hairy, extinct elephant-like mammal. Scientific name: Mammuthus. Something very large of its kind.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Very large.

Example sentence: A few dozen changes to the genome of a modern elephant - to give it subcutaneous fat, woolly hair and sebaceous glands - might suffice to create a variation that is functionally similar to the mammoth. Returning this keystone species to the tundras could stave off some effects of warming.

Large

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Of considerable or relatively great size or extent.

Example sentence: It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

We hope you now know whether to use Mammoth or Large in your sentence.

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