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Definition of Mastodont
1. Noun. Extinct elephant-like mammal that flourished worldwide from Miocene through Pleistocene times; differ from mammoths in the form of the molar teeth.
Generic synonyms: Proboscidean, Proboscidian
Group relationships: Genus Mammut, Genus Mastodon, Mammut
Specialized synonyms: American Mastodon, American Mastodont, Mammut Americanum
Definition of Mastodont
1. Noun. mastodon ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mastodont
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mastodont
Literary usage of Mastodont
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"... of Europe. mastodont (mas'tô-dont), a. and и. [< masto- don(t-).] I. o. ...
[< mastodont + ..."
2. Catalogue of the Brazilian Section at the World's Columbian Exposition by Brazil (1893)
"... mastodont bone - - - - 291 3. ANTONIO CARNEIRO, Ceará. Copper ores - 291 4.
COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF AMAZONAS. Specimens of rocks - - - - -291 5. ..."
3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1878)
"... the bones of which, cleaned from the matrix, weighs three hundred pounds.
He also discovered the new mastodont ..."
4. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Adgate Lipscomb, Albert Ellery Bergh, Richard Holland Johnston (1905)
"... enabled them to decide that the animal was neither a mammoth nor an elephant,
but of a distinct kind, to which they have given the name> of mastodont, ..."
5. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson, Albert Ellery Bergh, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States (1905)
"... was neither a mammoth nor an elephant, but of a distinct kind, to which they
have given the name of mastodont, from the protuberance of its teeth. ..."
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