mammoth
noun
any large, elephantlike mammal of the extinct genus Mammuthus, from the Pleistocene Epoch, having hairy skin and ridged molar teeth.
mammoths
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pluralof mammoth.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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Sora transfixed the tech world by creating seemingly realistic videos of everything from woolly mammoths trekking across a snowy field to a stylish woman walking down a Tokyo street filled with glowing neon signs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026
They also compared the bone of modern elephants and steppe mammoths to determine which animal it came from.
From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026
These microRNAs helped confirm that the genetic signals truly originated from mammoths.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 15, 2025
It peers across the street at the bubbling La Brea Tar Pits with their fiber-glass mammoths and saber-tooth cats.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2025
The sabre-tooth cats, after flourishing for more than 30 million years, disappeared, and so did the giant ground sloths, the oversized lions, native American horses, native American camels, the giant rodents and the mammoths.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
