woolly mammoth

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   very hairy mammoth common in colder portions of the northern hemisphere

   Synonymsnorthern mammothMammuthus primigenius

   Broadermammoth

Questions about woolly mammoth

What does woolly mammoth mean?

woolly mammoth means "very hairy mammoth common in colder portions of the northern hemisphere".

What is another word for woolly mammoth?

Close synonyms include northern mammoth, Mammuthus primigenius. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is woolly mammoth a common word?

woolly mammoth is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.