northern mammoth

northern mammoth
noun
very hairy mammoth common in colder portions of the northern hemisphere
Hypernyms: ↑mammoth

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noun

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northern mammoth,
a mammoth, formerly native to Europe and Northern Asia, remains of which have been found in Siberia; woolly mammoth.

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