mammoths

noun

plural of mammoth
as in whales
something that is unusually large and powerful even as sport-utility vehicles go, that one is a mammoth

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Recent Examples of mammoths The site preserves the remains of Columbian mammoths and offers a look at Ice Age life in Texas. — Brandi D. Addison, USA Today, 17 Aug. 2026 Woolly mammoths coexisted with early humans who hunted the cold-resistant herbivores for food and used their tusks and bones as tools. — CBS News, 4 Aug. 2026 These results raise some questions about how Ice Age hunter-gatherers interacted with wooly mammoths. — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 30 July 2026 According to this theory, those now-extinct megafauna—the giant ground sloths and the giant beavers, the mastodons and mammoths, and even the lions and dire wolves—were relatively quickly hunted to extinction. — Literary Hub, 10 June 2026 The artificial egg tech is the latest addition to Colossal's list of de-extinction projects, which now span dodo birds, dire wolves, and mammoths. — Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 19 May 2026 Fossils have also been found that indicate the islands were also once home to pygmy mammoths, which only reached 4 to 6 feet tall. — Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 29 Apr. 2026 Surviving Earth explores the world 450M years ago featuring giant sea scorpions, mammoths and sabertooths. — Peter White, Deadline, 12 Mar. 2026 Unlike typical mice with short gray-brown coats, these woolly mice have long dirty-blond hair that mimics the shaggy fur that helped protect mammoths from the Arctic cold. — Rob Stein, NPR, 4 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mammoths
  1. whales
  2. dinosaurs
  3. giants
  4. monsters
  5. elephants
Noun
  • In July, Shedd said it had been asked to help rehome up to 10 beluga whales because of its experience caring for belugas and its specialized habitats.
    — Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026
  • The knowledge center aims to help people understand our relationship with whales and their natural habitat.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of whales
Noun
  • Hathaway plays a suburban mom whose neighborhood is suddenly and mysteriously transported from 1982 to prehistoric times, putting family and neighbors at the mercy of hungry dinosaurs.
    — The Week US, TheWeek, 23 Aug. 2026
  • The real end of Oak Street comes not from the feet and chompers of the dinosaurs but from a moviemaker who revives the idyllic 1980s only to desecrate them with wokeness.
    — Peter Tonguette, The Washington Examiner, 22 Aug. 2026
Definition of dinosaurs
Noun
  • David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Taylor Farms, along with other food service giants such as US Foods and Sysco, has become bigger and more vital in part by buying other companies.
    — Brandon Gomez, CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026
  • The most rewarding part has been witnessing the power of Manoj and Boman – two giants of cinema – working together for the first time in this film.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of giants
Noun
  • There will be no B-movie monsters wearing terrible prosthetics, no scripts full of non sequiturs, no glitchy graphics.
    — Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2026
  • The monsters of the original — the Cyclops and the sirens — are replaced by drones that buzz across the stage and models of robotic war machines.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of monsters
Noun
  • King drops elephants through the air, erects wobbly Towers of Babel, lets characters run amok with depictions of her own pencils, and then summons a hand with a knife to clear a clean space on the page.
    — Laura Preston, New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2026
  • Other inspirations for the project include the Giant Pink Sea Snail from Doctor Dolittle, giant mechanical elephant puppets by Royal de Luxe and Jules Verne’s imaginative creations.
    — Jim Dobson, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of elephants

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“Mammoths.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mammoths. Accessed 3 Sep. 2026.

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