Definitions for Mastodon
ˈmæs təˌdɒnmastodon

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. mastodon, mastodontnoun

   extinct elephant-like mammal that flourished worldwide from Miocene through Pleistocene times; differ from mammoths in the form of the molar teeth

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1. mastodonnoun

   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.

2. Mastodonnoun

   A nickname for both the 4-8-0 and (though incorrectly) the 4-10-0 train configurations.

3. Etymology: First attested 1813, from the genus name Mastodon (1806), coined by Georges Cuvier, from μαστός + ὀδούς, from the similarity of the mammilloid projections on the crowns of the extinct mammal's molars.

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1. Mastodon

   A mastodon (mastós 'breast' + odoús 'tooth') is any proboscidean belonging to the extinct genus Mammut (family Mammutidae). Mastodons inhabited North and Central America during the late Miocene or late Pliocene up to their extinction at the end of the Pleistocene 10,000 to 11,000 years ago. They lived in herds and were predominantly forest-dwelling animals. They generally had a browsing diet, distinct from that of the contemporary Columbian mammoth, which tended towards grazing. M. americanum, the American mastodon, and M. pacificus, the Pacific mastodon, are the youngest and best-known species of the genus. Mastodons disappeared from North America as part of a mass extinction of most of the Pleistocene megafauna, widely believed to have been caused by a combination of climate changes at the end of the Pleistocene and overexploitation by Paleo-Indians.

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1. mastodon

   A mastodon is a large, extinct mammal species that was similar to but distinct from mammoths, that existed approximately 10 to 30 million years ago. They are characterized by heavy bodies, long curved tusks, and cone-shaped teeth. Mastodons were part of the family named Mammutidae, and their fossils have been discovered in North and Central America, Europe, and Asia.

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1. Mastodonnoun

   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 romains occur in nearly all parts of the world in deposits ranging from Miocene to late Quaternary time

2. Etymology: [Gr. masto`s the breast + 'odoy`s, 'odo`ntos, a tooth. So called from the conical projections upon its molar teeth.]

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1. Mastodon

   Mastodons are an extinct group of mammal species related to elephants, that inhabited North and Central America during the late Miocene or late Pliocene up to their extinction at the end of the Pleistocene 12,000 years ago. Their genus name is Mammut, and they are members of the order Proboscidea. They lived in herds and were predominantly forest dwelling animals that fed on a mixed diet of browsing and grazing with a seasonal preference for browsing, in contrast to living elephants that are mostly grazing animals. The American mastodon is the most recent and best-known species of the genus. They disappeared from North America as part of a mass extinction of most of the Pleistocene megafauna, widely presumed to have been a result of rapid climate change in North America, as well as the sophistication of stone tool weaponry used by the Clovis hunters which may have caused a gradual attrition of the mastodon population.

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1. Mastodon

   mas′to-don, n. a genus of extinct elephants, so named from the mamillary cusps or teat-like prominences on the molar teeth. [Gr. mastos, the breast, odous, odontos, a tooth.]

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1. Mastodon

   one of an extinct species of mammals akin to the elephant.

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Mastodon in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Mastodon in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of Mastodon in a Sentence

1. Joshua Miller:

   Every time you get to the warm season, the Janne Buesching mastodon was going to the same place -- bam, bam, bam -- repeatedly. The clarity of that signal was unexpected and really exciting.

2. Zhang Hanwen:

   The aim of the game in this boom period of proboscidean evolution was' adapt or die,' habitat perturbations were relentless, pertained to the ever-changing global climate, continuously promoting new adaptive solutions while proboscideans that didn't keep up were literally, left for dead. The once greatly diverse and widespread mastodonts were eventually reduced to less than a handful of species in the Americas, including the familiar Ice Age American mastodon.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Mastodon
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Mastodon
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Mastodon
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Mastodon
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=Mastodon
8. ^ The Nuttall Encyclopedia
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/12342/pg12342-images.html#Mastodon