Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - mastodon
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Mastodon
mastodon
noun Etymology: New Latin ~t-, ~, from Greek mastos + odont-, odon, odous tooth — more at tooth Date: 1811 1. any of various extinct mammals (genus Mammut syn. Mastodon) of the elephant family existing from the Miocene through the Pleistocene that are distinguished from the related mammoths chiefly by molar teeth with cone-shaped cusps 2. one that is unusually large • ~ic adjective • ~t adjective or noun
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n. a large extinct mammal of the genus Mammut, resembling the elephant but having nipple-shaped tubercles on the crowns of its molar teeth. Derivatives mastodontic adj. Etymology: mod.L f. Gk mastos breast + odous odontos tooth ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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- 1813, from Mod.L. genus name Mastodon (1806), coined by Georges Cuvier from Gk. mastos "breast" + odont- "tooth," so called from the nipple-like projections on the crowns of the fossil molars. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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