English-Finnish translations for mammoth

• mammutti
• jättiläismäinen
  Sen perustaminen on kuitenkin jättiläismäinen hanke. However, it would be quite a mammoth task to establish such an Office.
  Meidän on käsiteltävä tämä jättiläismäinen tapaus, sillä se ei ole vielä vanhentunut. We must deal with this mammoth affair, for which the limitation period is not yet at an end.
  Tämä jättiläismäinen asiakirja juontaa juurensa muun muassa komission uudesta strategiasta, jota se on noudattanut jo monta vuotta. This mammoth document is, amongst other things, the result of a new strategy that the Commission has already been pursuing for several years.
• mammutti-
• mammuttimainen
  Yksi puheenjohtajavaltion ensisijaisista tavoitteista on mammuttimainen infrastruktuurin kehittämishanke. One of the priorities of this Presidency is a mammoth project to develop infrastructure.
  Tiedotusvälineiden valvominen on mammuttimainen tehtävä, ja Euroopan on käytettävä apuna mahdollisimman monia asiantuntijoita lapsiin kohdistuvien haitallisten vaikutteiden torjumiseksi. Controlling the media is a mammoth task and Europe needs to draw on as many expert sources as possible in order to harness what is increasingly a harmful influence on children.

Definition of mammoth

• 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
• A mastodon
• Something very large of its kind
• Comparable to a mammoth in its size; very large, huge, gigantic

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