mastodonic

Variant of mastodon

mastodon definition

mas·to·don (mas′tə dän′)

noun

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

Etymology: < Fr mastodonte, coined (1806) by Baron Georges (Léopold Chrétien Frédéric Dagobert) Cuvier < Gr mastos (see masto-) + odont-, stem of odous, tooth: from the nipplelike processes on its molar

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