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mastodon
[mas-tuh-don]
noun
a massive, elephantlike mammal of the genus Mammut (Mastodon ), that flourished worldwide from the Miocene through the Pleistocene epochs and, in North America, into recent times, having long, curved upper tusks and, in the male, short lower tusks.
a person of immense size, power, influence, etc.
mastodon
/ ˈæəˌɒ /
noun
any extinct elephant-like proboscidean mammal of the genus Mammut (or Mastodon ), common in Pliocene times
mastodon
Any of several extinct mammals of the genus Mastodon (or Mammut). Mastodons resembled elephants and mammoths except that their molar teeth had conelike cusps rather than parallel ridges for grinding. Like elephants, mastodons had a pair of long, curved tusks growing from their upper jaw, but males also sometimes had a second pair from the lower jaw. Like mammoths, mastodons were covered with hair. They lived from the Oligocene Epoch to the end of the Ice Age.
Other Word Forms
- mastodonic adjective
- ˌٴˈDzԳپ adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of mastodon1
Word History and Origins
Origin of mastodon1
Example Sentences
And they have tiny, mostly useless little eyes, no ears, and a pair of huge incisors like a mastodon's tusks.
For millions of years, North America was home to a zoo of giants: mammoths and mastodons, camels and dire wolves, sloths the size of elephants and beavers as big as bears.
The shrub-like oak tree has been a fixture of the landscape since mastodons and saber-toothed cats last roamed Southern California.
Nonetheless, the tree has been a fixture of the landscape since mastodons and saber-toothed cats last roamed Southern California.
They also have found small pieces of mastodon tusk, but nothing this big and intact.
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