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wool'ly mam'moth




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. Also called Siberian mammoth. See illus. under mammoth.

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