woolly mammoth

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woolly mammoth (plural woolly mammoths)

  1. A very hairy mammoth, Mammuthus primigenius, widespread in colder regions of the Northern Hemisphere during the Pleistocene period.
    • 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 204:
      The ice age was nearly two million years old by the time the woolly mammoth evolved.

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