mastodont — meaning in English

English meaning

• mammoth noun An extinct, elephant-like animal covered in shaggy hair, with long curved tusks, that lived during the Ice Age.
• mastodon noun An extinct elephant-like mammal that lived until roughly the end of the last ice age.

Senses

mastodont is used for these senses in English:

• mammoth Comparable to a mammoth in its size; very large, huge, gigantic.
• 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.

mammoth — full definition

1. noun An extinct, elephant-like animal covered in shaggy hair, with long curved tusks, that lived during the Ice Age.
2. adjective Extremely large.

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.

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