Mammoth

n. [Russ. mammont, mammont, from Tartar mamma, the earth, because the Tunguses and Yakoots believed that this animal worked its way in the earth like a mole.] (Zool.) An extinct elephant, of which there are several species. The term is usually applied to the Elephant-primigenius, remains of which have been found on both continents.

☞ In the year 1799, one of these animals, in an entire state, thawed out of an ice-bank, near the mouth of a river in the north of Siberia.