woolly mammoth

noun

a shaggy-coated mammoth, Mammuthus primigenius, that lived in cold regions across Eurasia and North America during the Ice Age, known from fossils, cave paintings, and well-preserved frozen carcasses.

First recorded in 1965–70

An army of Wildlings, some giants, and a woolly mammoth or two?

Rockefeller Republicans have long gone the way of the woolly mammoth.

Did she learn from the New York 23rd District election that being a moderate Republican is a lot like being a woolly mammoth?

The characteristic tundra animal is the reindeer, though musk-ox, woolly mammoth, and others were wide-spread at this time.

About these lost lowlands wandered herds of the woolly mammoth.

Arrival of the tundra fauna, the reindeer, the woolly mammoth, and the woolly rhinoceros.

It was associated with bones of the woolly mammoth, the rhinoceros, the reindeer, and a few fragments of other human bones.

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