Plural of mammoth
regular plural
The plural of mammoth is mammoths.
Forms of mammoth
| Singular | mammoth /ˈmæməθ/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | mammoths |
| Countable | countable |
Mammoths in a sentence
- That is a lot of ship, about the size of big tankers before they grew so rapidly to become supers, mammoths and oilbergs.1973, Jeffrey Potter, Disaster by Oil, page 46
- The Cave of Lascaux became the world's most celebrated museum of Magdalenian art and as much an icon of the Pleistocene as mammoths and Neanderthals.2012, Lydia Pyne, Stephen J. Pyne, chapter 8, in The Last Lost World, Penguin, →ISBN. From the entry Magdalenian
- "great beasts that resembled huge brown haystacks" and had long, long teeth — tusks, no doubt — so it seems incontrovertible that mastodons and woolly mammoths are meant.1990, Neil Rolde, Maine: A Narrative History, page 9. From the entry pachydermic
Meaning of mammoth
- noun 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.
- noun A mastodon.
- noun Something very large of its kind.
Questions about the plural of mammoth
- What is the plural of mammoth?
- The plural of mammoth is mammoths.
- Is mammoth countable?
- Mammoth is a countable noun.
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