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mastodon


1813, from Modern Latin genus name Mastodon (1806), coined by French naturalist Georges Léopole Chrétien Frédéric Dagobert, Baron Cuvier (1769-1832) from Greek mastos "breast" (see masto-) + [..]
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mastodon


one of many extinct species of large animals related to elephants. The last mastodons became extinct about 11,000 years ago.
Source: nationalgeographic.org

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(n) extinct elephant-like mammal that flourished worldwide from Miocene through Pleistocene times; differ from mammoths in the form of the molar teeth
Source: beedictionary.com

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An extinct genus of large Mammals in the Family Mammutidae, that fed by browsing on tall Plants. Eurasian species died out three million years ago, but some specimens of the American Mastodon survived [..]
Source: online-medical-dictionary.org

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(Mammut americanum) The mastodon is a distant relative to the modern elephant. It stood 7 to 10 feet tall and wighed four to six tons. Mastodon ate mainly trees, shrubs, and herbs in forests and woodl [..]
Source: museum.state.il.us

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mastodon


genus|family|Mammutidae|the mastodon, a type of mammoth; replaced by ''Mammut'' ----
Source: en.wiktionary.org





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