mastodon

See also: Mastodon

English

Wikispecies

Alternative forms

• mastodont

Etymology

First attested 1813, from the (deprecated template usage) [etyl] New Latin genus name Mastodon (1806), coined by (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French naturalist Georges Cuvier, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek μαστός (mastós, “breast”) + ὀδούς (odoús, “tooth”), from the similarity of the mammilloid projections on the crowns of the extinct mammal's molars.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmæstədɑn/, /ˈmæstədən/

Noun

mastodon (plural mastodons)

1. Extinct elephant-like mammal of the genus Mammut that flourished worldwide from Miocene through Pleistocene times; differs from elephants and mammoths in the form of the molar teeth.

mastodon

Derived terms

• mastodonic

Translations

extinct elephant-like mammal of the genus Mammut

• Catalan: mastodont m
• Finnish: mastodontti (fi)
• French: mastodonte (fr) m
• Greek: μαστόδοντας (el) m (mastódontas)
• Italian: mastodonte (it) m
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• Navajo: bíchį́į́h yee adilohii ditłʼoígíí
• Portuguese: mastodonte (pt) m
• Romanian: mastodont (ro) m
• Russian: мастодо́нт (ru) m (mastodónt)
• Spanish: mastodonte