1) Beast of the Ice Age 2) Early American resident 3) Extinct elephant cousin 4) Extinct elephantlike animal 5) Extinct mammal 6) Extinct tusked mammal 7) French word used in English 8) Gigantic creature 9) Ice Age beast 10) Ice Age elephant 11) Ice Age mammal 12) Ice Age roamer 13) Massive extinct mammal
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1) Mastodont
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Mastodons (Greek: μαστός `breast` and ὀδούς, `tooth`) are an extinct group of mammal species related to elephants, that inhabited North and Central America during the late Miocene or late Pliocene up to their extinction at the end of the Pleistocene 10,000 to 11,000 years ago. Their genus name is Mammut, and they are members of the...
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• (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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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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(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 wa...
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<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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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 o...
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The Mastodon was a large extinct prehistoric mammal of the genus Mammut once plentiful in what is now Europe and Asia. Mastodon resembled the elephant but is distinguished by having nipple-shaped tubercles arranged in pairs on the crowns of the molar teeth. It is also thought that Mastodon had a different shape to the head and neck than an elephant...
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n] - extinct elephant-like mammal that flourished worldwide from Miocene through Pleistocene times
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mastodon Related 'tooth, teeth' word units: bruxo-; odonto-.
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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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Any of an extinct family of mammals belonging to the elephant order. They differed from elephants and mammoths in the structure of their grinding teeth. There were numerous species, among which the American mastodon (
Mastodon americanum), about 3 m/10 ft high, of the Pleistocene era, is well known. They were hunted by humans ...
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