mammophant
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A (hypothetical) cross between a woolly mammoth and an elephant.
Example Sentences
- "However, several generations of “mammophant” breeding would be necessary before it would be possible to sire a genetically “pure” mammoth."
- "Herds of mammophants pining for the fjords aren’t quite within the realm of what’s possible."
- "Church and his team plan to create the mammophant by endowing the egg cell of an Asian elephant with the genes for red blood cells that operate efficiently at low temperature, an enhanced fat layer under the skin, and a luxuriant covering of hair and fur - all from the woolly mammoth genome."