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mammophant

noun

Etymology

Blend of mammoth + elephant.

  1. derived from ꜣbw — “elephant; ivory”
  2. derived from *eḷu✻ — “elephant”
  3. derived from ἐλέφᾱς
  4. derived from elephantus
  5. derived from elefant
  6. inherited from elefant
  7. compounded as mammophant — “mammoth + elephant”

Definitions

  1. A (hypothetical) cross between a woolly mammoth and an elephant.

    • However, several generations of “mammophant” breeding would be necessary before it would be possible to sire a genetically “pure” mammoth.
    • Herds of mammophants pining for the fjords aren’t quite within the realm of what’s possible.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for mammophant. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA