mastodon

Definitions


[ˈmastədɒn], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a large extinct elephant-like mammal of the Miocene to Pleistocene epochs, having teeth of a relatively primitive form and number


Phrases:

Origin:
early 19th century: modern Latin, from Greek mastos ‘breast’ + odous, odont- ‘tooth’ (with reference to nipple-shaped tubercles on the crowns of its molar teeth)




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