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MASTODON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Extinct elephant-like mammal that flourished worldwide from Miocene through Pleistocene times; differ from mammoths in the form of the molar teeth
Synonyms:
mastodon; mastodont
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("mastodon" is a kind of...):
proboscidean; proboscidian (massive herbivorous mammals having tusks and a long trunk)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mastodon"):
American mastodon; American mastodont; Mammut americanum (mastodon of North America; in some classifications considered a mammoth rather than a mastodon)
Holonyms ("mastodon" is a member of...):
genus Mammut; genus Mastodon; Mammut (extinct type genus of the Mammutidae: mastodons)
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