mammophant

English

Etymology

Blend of mammoth +‎ elephant.

Noun

mammophant (plural mammophants)

1. A (hypothetical) cross between a woolly mammoth and an elephant.
   • 2002, Allen A. Debus, Diane E. Debus, Dinosaur Memories, page 186:

     However, several generations of “mammophant” breeding would be necessary before it would be possible to sire a genetically “pure” mammoth.

   • 2017 February 22, Mark Carnall, The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Herds of mammophants pining for the fjords aren’t quite within the realm of what’s possible.

   • 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 309:

     Church and his team plan to create the mammophant by endowing the egg cell of an Asian elephant with the genes for red blood cells that operate efficiently at low temperature, an enhanced fat layer under the skin, and a luxuriant covering of hair and fur - all from the woolly mammoth genome.