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What is the noun for mammoth?

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mammoth
  1. Any species of the extinct genus Mammuthus, of large, usually hairy, elephant-like mammals with long curved tusks and an inclined back, which became extinct with the last retreat of ice age glaciers during the late Pleistocene period, and are known from fossils, frozen carcasses, and Paleolithic cave paintings found in North America and Eurasia.
  2. (obsolete) A mastodon.
  3. (figuratively) Something very large of its kind.
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    1. “The CEO of the company was a mammoth in the business world, dominating every market they entered.”
mammoths
  1. plural of mammoth
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    1. “For example, they hope to find some intact nuclei preserved in 20,000 year-old carcasses of woolly mammoths frozen in the permafrost in Siberia.”
      “The Klondike Goldfields are one of the world's major sources of fossilized woolly mammoths and the plants and animals of their time.”
      “New DNA research reveals that woolly mammoths were more closely related to modern Asian elephants than to African elephants.”
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