The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word MAMMOTHS
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More clues leading to the result MAMMOTHS
- Mania on vacation: ‘1,000 insects! Enormous creatures!’
- Male American fliers in ancient jumbos
- Mania on vacation: '1,000 insects! Enormous creatures!'
- Elephants' mothers consuming chocolate candy, oh?
- 2,000 insects that flutter around any old elephants
- Insects following one among 2,000 giant beasts
- A thousand winged creatures seen around in the morning — they are huge
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What does MAMMOTHS mean?
MAMMOTHS 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.
- A mastodon.
- Something very large of its kind.