Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

woolly mammoth

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.89 in modern English

Syllables: wool-ly -mam-moth
IPA

28

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A very hairy mammoth, Mammuthus primigenius, widespread in colder regions of the Northern Hemisphere during the Pleistocene period.

Example Sentences

"The ice age was nearly two million years old by the time the woolly mammoth evolved."

Inflected Forms

woolly mammoths (plural) wooly mammoth (alternative)

Synonyms

northern mammoth mammuthus primigenius

Questions

What does woolly mammoth mean?: A very hairy mammoth, Mammuthus primigenius, widespread in colder regions of the Northern Hemisphere during the Pleistocene period.

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