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ALL meanings of mastodon

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  • noun mastodon a massive, elephantlike mammal of the genus Mammut (Mastodon), that flourished worldwide from the Miocene through the Pleistocene epochs and, in North America, into recent times, having long, curved upper tusks and, in the male, short lower tusks. 1
  • noun mastodon a person of immense size, power, influence, etc. 1
  • noun mastodon A large, extinct, elephantlike mammal of the Miocene to Pleistocene epochs, having teeth of a relatively primitive form and number. 1
  • noun mastodon mammoth: prehistoric elephant 1
  • noun mastodon any extinct elephant-like proboscidean mammal of the genus Mammut (or Mastodon), common in Pliocene times 0
  • noun mastodon any of an extinct family (Mastodontidae) of proboscidean mammals that differed from the elephants and mammoths by being larger and having a different structure of the molars 0
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