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mastodon
[ mas-tuh-don ]
noun
- a massive, elephantlike mammal of the genus Mammut ( Mastodon ), that flourished worldwide from the Miocene through the Pleistocene epochs and, in North America, into recent times, having long, curved upper tusks and, in the male, short lower tusks.
- a person of immense size, power, influence, etc.
mastodon
/ ˈ³¾Ã¦²õ³Ùəˌ»åÉ’²Ô /
noun
- any extinct elephant-like proboscidean mammal of the genus Mammut (or Mastodon ), common in Pliocene times
mastodon
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- Any of several extinct mammals of the genus Mastodon (or Mammut ). Mastodons resembled elephants and mammoths except that their molar teeth had conelike cusps rather than parallel ridges for grinding. Like elephants, mastodons had a pair of long, curved tusks growing from their upper jaw, but males also sometimes had a second pair from the lower jaw. Like mammoths, mastodons were covered with hair. They lived from the Oligocene Epoch to the end of the Ice Age.
Derived Forms
- ËŒ³¾²¹²õ³Ù´Çˈ»å´Ç²Ô³Ù¾±³¦, adjective
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- ³¾²¹²õt´Ç·»å´Ç²Ôi³¦ adjective
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of mastodon1
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of mastodon1
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For millions of years, North America was home to a zoo of giants: mammoths and mastodons, camels and dire wolves, sloths the size of elephants and beavers as big as bears.
The shrub-like oak tree has been a fixture of the landscape since mastodons and saber-toothed cats last roamed Southern California.
Nonetheless, the tree has been a fixture of the landscape since mastodons and saber-toothed cats last roamed Southern California.
They also have found small pieces of mastodon tusk, but nothing this big and intact.
"Elephants don't get much cancer. Their ancestors, long before mastodons, were much smaller, so how, en route to today's size, did they avoid cancer?" he wondered.
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