Mastodon — meaning in English

English meaning

• mastodon noun An extinct elephant-like mammal that lived until roughly the end of the last ice age.

Senses

Mastodon is used for these senses in English:

• Mastodon (social media) A decentralized microblogging platform, part of the Fediverse.
• mastodon Extinct elephant-like mammal of the genus †Mammut that flourished worldwide from Miocene through Pleistocene times; differs from elephants and mammoths in the form of the molar teeth.

mastodon — full definition

1. noun An extinct elephant-like mammal that lived until roughly the end of the last ice age.
2. noun Something enormous or unwieldy, used figuratively.