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mastodon

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun mastodon has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

mastodonn. [Gr. masto`s the breast + 'odoy`s, 'odo`ntos, a tooth. So called from the conical projections upon its molar teeth.].
     An extinct genus of mammals closely allied to the elephant, but having less complex molar teeth, and often a pair of lower, as well as upper, tusks, which are incisor teeth. The species were mostly larger than elephants, and their remains occur in nearly all parts of the world in deposits ranging from Miocene to late Quaternary time.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

mastodon, n. a large extinct mammal of the genus Mammut, resembling the elephant but having nipple-shaped tubercles on the crowns of its molar teeth.

Derivative
mastodontic adj.
Etymology
mod.L f. Gk mastos breast + odous odontos tooth
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