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Mastodont (Noun)

Meaning

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

Classification

Nouns denoting animals.

Examples

  • Mastodont fossils are found in geological deposits of North and Central America, in Africa and Eurasia.
  • The American mastodont was a larger cousin of the South American mastodont species that went extinct.
  • Scientists learned about mastodont social behavior through remains of a herd found in an African burial site.
  • Studies of mastodont teeth structure helped to identify it as a distant relative of mammoths.
  • Until the 20th century many believed mastodonts all belonged to species that evolved into mammoths but DNA testing shows differences.

Synonyms

  • Mastodon

Hypernyms

  • Proboscidean

Hyponyms

  • Mammut Americanum
  • American Mastodon
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