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Look up: mastodon

  1. Mastodon
    (pronounced MAST-oh-don) Mastodons meaning breast tooth) were large, elephant-like, herbivorous mammals that had long tusks, grinding molars, and a long, prehensile proboscis (nose). They evolved during the Oligocene epoch and are closely related to mammoths and elephants . Most mastodons lived until about 10,000 years ago, when the last Ice Age was ending.
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  2. Mastodon
    Mastodon is a township in Iron County Michigan, USA
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  3. mastodon
    [n] - extinct elephant-like mammal that flourished worldwide from Miocene through Pleistocene times
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  4. Mastodon
    Mas'to·don noun [ Greek masto`s the breast + 'odoy`s , 'odo`ntos , a tooth. So called from the conical projections upon its molar teeth.] (Paleon.) An extinct genus of mammals closely allied to the elephant, but having less complex molar teeth, and often a pair of lower, as well as upper, tusks, which are incisor teeth. The species were mostly larger than elepha ...
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  5. mastodon
    <paleontology> An extinct genus of mammals closely allied to the elephant, but having less complex molar teeth, and often a pair of lower, as well as upper, tusks, which are incisor teeth. The species were mostly larger than elephants, and their romains occur in nearly all parts of the world in deposits ranging from Miocene to late Quaternary ...
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  6. mastodon
    mastodont noun extinct elephant-like mammal that flourished worldwide from Miocene through Pleistocene times; differ from mammoths in the form of the molar teeth
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  7. Mastodon
    `Mastodons` or `Mastodonts` are members of the extinct genus `Mammut` of the order Proboscidea and form the family Mammutidae; they resembled, but were distinct from, the woolly mammoth which belongs to the family Elephantidae. Mastodons were browsers while mammoths were grazers.
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  8. Mastodon
    • (n.) An extinct genus of mammals closely allied to the elephant, but having less complex molar teeth, and often a pair of lower, as well as upper, tusks, which are incisor teeth. The species were mostly larger than elephants, and their romains occur in nearly all parts of the world in deposits ranging from Miocene to late Quaternary time.Mas...
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  9. mastodon
    any of several extinct elephantine mammals (family Mastodontidae, genus Mastodon [also called Mammut] that first appeared in the early Miocene and ... [3 related articles]
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  10. mastodon
    mastodon Related 'tooth, teeth' word units: bruxo-; odonto-.
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  11. mastodon
    mastodon (măs'tudon") , name for a number of prehistoric mammals of the extinct genus Mammut, from which modern elephants are believed to have developed. The earliest known forms lived in the Oligocene epoch in Africa. These were long-jawed mastodons about 4 1/2 ft (137 cm) high, with ...
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